Any changes you make in the Archive Utility Preferences take effect immediately, so there’s no need to save or reboot. Therefore, we’ll set “After Expanding” to move archive to Trash. In our case, we want to remove the original zip file, but not necessarily delete it immediately. This last option could be helpful if you want to save backups of your original archive files in location that is out of the way and won’t clutter up your main download or working folders. Instead of leaving the file in its original location, you can have Archive Utility move it to the Trash, delete it permanently (which bypasses the Trash and removes the file immediately), or move the archive to another location. tar file once you’ve extracted its contents. The “After Expanding” option lets you decide what to do with that original.
This would be handy if you frequently extract archives from different local and networked locations but want all unarchived file contents to be stored in the same place, such as a folder on your desktop. In the top section, you can change the default behavior of extracting archives into the same folder, and instead designate a different location in which to store the contents of all extracted zip files. The Archive Utility Preferences window is divided into two sections that let you configure several options for how archive files are both extracted (top) and created (bottom). With the app launched, click on Archive Utility in the OS X Menu Bar and select Preferences. Either way, find Archive Utility.app and double-click to open it. You can either manually navigate to that folder and launch the app, or simply search for “Archive Utility” with Spotlight. The Archive Utility application file is hidden deep within the OS X System folder: System > Library > CoreServices > Applications > Archive Utility.app. To avoid needing to do this, we can modify how OS X handles a .zip file by modifying the preferences for Archive Utility, the system tool that manages archive files in the operating system.
Unless we want to save the original file for some reason, we’ll now need to manually select the file in Finder and delete it, which is an extra, needless step. zip file, the contents of the file are extracted to the same folder and we’re left with the archive file’s contents and the original.
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