Thread: Sigil can't open on Mac (txz keeps converting to cpgz and back)
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Old 03-29-2023, 06:54 PM   #2
KevinH
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Your macOS version is old and does not properly support the xz compression. A .txz (ie. .tar.xz) is not a zip archive. You need a more recent unarchive program. A free more recent one is called The Unarchiver available from the mac app store.

See this post for more info:

https://sigil-ebook.com/sigil/tips/#...z-or-txz-files
Last edited by KevinH; 03-29-2023 at 07:04 PM.
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