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Archive file. An archive file is a file that is composed of one or more computer files along with metadata. Archive files are used to collect multiple data files together into a single file for easier portability and storage, or simply to compress files to use less storage space. Archive files often store directory structures, error detection and correction information, arbitrary comments, and sometimes use built-in encryption.
Compressed folder. Zipped archive. Zipped files (known by many names, see the table to the right, but in this document called zipped files) are one or more files on a computer disk that have been combined into a single file in a space-efficient manner to reduce their total file size.