Anyone who downloads files from around the web, ftp, torrents, and elsewhere will eventually wind up with a lot of archive clutter sitting around on their Mac in the form of tons of zip, rar, sit, and other compressed file formats. This is because the default behavior is set for archives to maintain their existence even after their contents are extracted, a reasonable but conservative setting that can cause users to forget about the original archive file(s). Rather than having an unruly mess of compressed file containers scattered throughout the OS X file system, a better solution for many is to adjust the Archive Utility preferences to automatically relocate the origin archive to a central folder after the contents have been extracted, this insures you’ll only have a single place to look for archives and makes it much easier to manage. Go anywhere in the OS X Finder, and hit Command+Shift+G to summon “Go To Folder”, enter the following path the box: /System/Library/CoreServices/ Loc...
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