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After updating my macOS to Sierra I've started experiencing a strange bug. When trying to compress some stuff to a zip (via the Archive Utility) it pops up a new Finder window after each compression.
Here are my Archive Utility settings:
As you can see "Reveal archive in Finder" is turned off. I've also tried turning it on and off a few times, but result was always the same.
It started to happen after upgrading to Sierra.
My current macOS version is 10.12.2.
Is there any fix to this?
If you launch Archive Utility directly from /System/Library/CoreServices/, you can create gzip-compressed .cpgz archives, which can have a higher compression rate than zip compression. However if you're compressing already compressed files (like most music and video files), you likely won't get much space savings, if any.
If you want to try however, open up Archive Utility, open the preferences, then change the Use archive format: setting to compressed archive, and create a new archive from the file menu (⌘K). This setting only affects archives created when you open the Archive Utility app. Ones created with the Compress option in the Finder's context menu will still be zip archives.
Try changing the default app to something else from the list of potential apps
Then click Change All..
Reboot.
Ensure the icon is now the correct one for your new choice, then repeat the process to revert to Archive Utility.
Best Answer
After some experimenting, I finally found a solution of sorts.
Before I get to it, just a word on the Archive Utility preferences. As far as I can tell, the preferences on the lower half of the window no longer have any effect on the Finder's archive creation process. It may have in the past, but the Finder no longer uses Archive Utility for archive creation, only for expansion. For the record, Archive Utility is located at
/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Archive Utility.app.The problem arises from the Finder's desire to reveal the archive it's just created. If you are in column view and are viewing the contents of a folder, and want to compress that folder and do so like in the image below, the Finder may open a new window to reveal the archive because it doesn't want to lose your folder selection in the current window.:
If instead in column view, you select a file (it must be a file) in the same column as the folder, and then right-click on the folder you want to compress, like in the image below, the Finder won't open a new window (it will change your current file selection to the newly created file).
So far, that's the closest I've come to any kind of "solution".