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You can now extract single pieces of the EPUB to edit or remove the images folder to run a script on it, and then easily zip it back up.

Unzipping and re-zipping EPUBs will become your new superpower. So save the changes that you made to the EPUB and drag that EPUB back over the eCanCrusher icon and it will re-zip it. So you can see that this EPUB now has an updated creation time. Now, I'm overriding what was already in that location, but that's okay. To zip it back up, I just drag it over top of that icon again. And then re-zipping that same EPUB, so let's assume I made some changes in this EPUB.

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In this case, override your computer's protective instincts and open the software anyway. In both the Mac and the PC context, you may get a message from your computer that Rorohiko is an unknown developer and as such your computer can't open the software. The process is very similar on a PC computer. Dragging the EPUB file over top of the icon will automatically unzip it and create a new folder in the same location as the EPUB. You download eCanCrusher and save it also to your desktop. If you have installed as per instructions you should see a set of icons at the bottom of the window.

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If you have a MAC you will probably need to install the shell commands. Once you click this, you need to copy the URL (the button to the right of the URL field will copy this for you). So to unzip an EPUB using eCanCrusher, you save the EPUB file somewhere where you can easily find it like your desktop. Select the play repository and locate the button labelled Clone or download. And if I unroll it, you can see there are all the pieces of the EPUB. Download eCanCrusher and save it to your Desktop, too. If I drag an EPUB over top of it, it duplicates it and it expands it. By default, files are saved to your computers Downloads folder. Here's eCanCrusher sitting on my desktop. In other words on the desktop or whatever subfolder in which it was housed. The folder will live next to the original EPUB. An EPUB, when dropped onto the script will expand a duplicated version into a folder containing all the parts of the package. eCanCrusher is a free script which you can put on your desktop or in an application dock.

The easiest way to unzip and re-zip an EPUB file on either system is to use a program like eCanCrusher. Not so long ago the process involved a command line instruction on the Mac that was complex and which I actually never got to work very well.

On a PC you can simply change the file extension from. There are a few different ways you can open up an EPUB file.

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When you're editing an EPUB file you might find that you need to unzip the archive in order to access or make changes to the content within. SO HTML, CSS, XML, and images zipped up into an archive. An EPUB file is basically all of the content you'd find on a website. The packaging step is very similar to zipping or compressing files, a process I assume you're already comfortable doing. An e-book is a collection of the various elements packaged up in an EPUB wrapper.

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