Mount zip files

[Jip-Hop]

Not sure if out of scope but perhaps a future improvement could be to allow mounting zip files on macOS to be able to browse them with the native Finder. Projects that do this have existed in the past, such as ArchiveMounter and fuse-zip, but they seem no longer maintained and/or rely on macFUSE.

But I think the required APIs are currently available to developers to build this without relying on fuse. Take the mcrawfs project for example:

An implementation of a file system driver for mounting .mcraw files using FSKit and MacOS 26’s brand new FSPathURLResource API.

This project lets you mount .mcraw files from Motioncam as file systems on MacOS 26 and explore their contents natively.

But instead of the .mcraw file format MacPacker could mount the archive file formats it supports.

[sarensw]

Hi @Jip-Hop , thanks for raising the request. This was indeed in the back of my mind already. This would really be a game changer. But also something that for sure takes more time. I'll keep the ticket open and will check this out.