![]() You know, because that's the most obvious place to drag files to be zipped up. The trick is to select all the files you want to zip up into single archive and drag them - wait for it - to the Downloads folder. Annoyingly, it's grayed out no matter what you do. If you select multiple files in your Google Drive on Chrome OS and right-click, you will see a "Zip selection" option. ![]() You can then browse the files within and copy the ones you want to Google Drive. Instead, when you double click on a zip file, Chrome OS mounts it like an external drive. ![]() There's no way of extracting the contents of a zip file to a folder, like in Windows or on a Mac. Opening a zip archive on a Chromebook is simple yet clunky. Accessing Windows and Mac programs? Check check check. You never know when you're going to run up against a wall and have to pull out a "real" laptop to get something done.Īnd yet, as I discovered after a few weeks of using a barebones 13-inch Toshiba Chromebook as my primary laptop, it isn't hard to achieve pretty much everything that a casual user would do on a traditional desktop or a laptop. And yet, it's hard to shake off the nagging feeling that you're using a browser attached to a keyboard. Their speed, simplicity, and ease of use makes them extremely tempting. I've been on the fence about Chromebooks for a long time.
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