DocHaven normally compresses and expands files without any user intervention. As the files are in Zip format they can usually be unzipped with any common unzip program under Macintosh or Windows. If a user or Administrator has a DocHaven compressed zip file such as one exported from the FTP server, it can be expanded using the DocHaven UnZip command.
- Choose ‘UnZip’ from the Manage menu.
- Choose the file/folder containing the DocHaven zip files.
- Click OK. DocHaven will now unzip the specified files, deleting the original zip versions.
There is no reason why the same files cannot be unzipped using the facility built into MacOS X, Windows XP+ or Linux. The only benefit of using the DocHaven command is that under the MacOS if the zip file contains files with resource forks these will be properly expanded rather than being left as MacBinary files.
Note that while most UnZip utilities retain the compressed file after an uncompression takes place, the DocHaven UnZip will delete the original zip file.