Mac

Archive Utility not working on macOS

Ran into this on a MacBook Air M2.

Archive Utility wouldn’t extract a zip on double-click. No idea why at first, but the pattern was:

A leading digit in the filename.

1_test.zip — would not extract test.zip — extracts fine

Renaming the file made double-click extraction work again.

1_test.zip also extracts if you use the “Extract” menu and pick a destination folder manually.

Maybe it was being detected as a multi-part archive?