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Mac users having trouble unzipping the game
🕑 Added 2025-08-14 13:45:43 +0000 UTCSince the game is over 4GB in size, compressing it with Ren Py is only possible using the .zip64 version, as the standard zip version only handles files smaller than that.
But from what I've been studying and reading, some native macOS tools may not handle this version well.
So I asked ChatGPT to suggest what could be done. Here is the answer:
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On macOS, the built-in Archive Utility is not great at handling ZIP64 (large ZIP) files — especially if they’re bigger than 4 GB or have more than ~65 k files.
That’s why you’re running into problems.
You have a few ways to fix this:
1️⃣ Use a better unzip tool
Install something that fully supports ZIP64, like:
The Unarchiver (free on Mac App Store)
→ Drag & drop the file into it instead of double-clicking.Keka (keka.io) — also free, supports ZIP64, 7z, tar, etc.
BetterZip (paid, trial available).
2️⃣ Use the Terminal
macOS’s default unzip command usually supports ZIP64, but older versions can choke on very large archives. Try:
unzip yourfile.zip
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If you are experiencing this problem and can test these solutions and let us know if they worked, that would be great.
Comments
JeffFromTheIRS
I'm running macOS Sequoia 15.5 and it unzipped just fine for me with Archive Utility. I also tried it using PeaZIP and that also worked just fine. (I'm using PeaZIP because it was a recommended as an alternative to 7Zip, which is console-only on macOS).
