mjgabriele opened this issue on Sep 28, 2019 ยท 13 posts
an0malaus posted Sun, 29 September 2019 at 6:58 PM
@mjgabriele it sounds as though you have the zip file type associated with the wrong application. if you double click to open and it gets automatically compressed, that is not normal behaviour from the Archive Utility.app
Looking at this link How to open a zip that turns into a cpgz fie
Please note that I am not promoting the Unarchiver, merely observing that the web page has an explanation of what might be occurring.
Stuffit expander is a very good tool, though sometimes it can have trouble with encrypted .RAR files (though that's not your problem) For those I use Keka.
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