{"id":978,"date":"2022-02-11T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T11:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/02\/11\/5972776-how-to-create-an-archive-in-file-manager-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:03:40","slug":"5972776-how-to-create-an-archive-in-file-manager-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5972776-how-to-create-an-archive-in-file-manager-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create an Archive in File Manager in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">The File Manager at Hostinger allows you to create archives -that is, a single file containing several files and\/or folders- in just a few clicks! <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The <b>available formats<\/b> for archive creation using this feature are zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz, tar.lz4, and tar.sz<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To create an archive, go to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a><\/b> &rarr; <b>Dashboard<\/b>, search for <b>File Manager<\/b> on the sidebar and click on it:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/02\/d8b5ec27-c760-4408-8333-216de16916ae.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Next, <b>select the files<\/b> and folders which you would like to compress &ndash; you can press the Ctrl button or Command on Mac to select several files and folders at the same time. Right-click on them to open the context menu, and choose <b>Archive<\/b>: <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/02\/9734d946-c62c-49e4-a7cf-7318e633d783.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Alternatively, you can click on the <b>Archive <\/b>button at the top of File Manager:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/02\/5285babf-c38b-4448-9f7d-01634def24ce.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Insert an archive <b>name<\/b>, and click on the desired <b>format<\/b>: <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/02\/56a82c28-6d16-4cda-a7c3-326e14c4a73e.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once the archive is created, the page will reload and you will find the archive in the file list: <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/02\/8e92236a-4f9b-4ff6-9a35-5311ec014ad4.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">That&rsquo;s it, now you know how to create archives in File Manager! &#128522;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Additional resources<\/b>: <\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"\/support\/4548688-basic-actions-in-file-manager\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Basic actions in File Manager<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"\/support\/1583613-how-do-i-extract-compressed-files\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">How to extract compressed files<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to create archives of your files and folders at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5972776-how-to-create-an-archive-in-file-manager-in-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5972776-como-crear-un-archivo-comprimido-en-el-administrador-de-archivos-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5972776-comment-creer-une-archive-dans-le-gestionnaire-de-fichiers-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5972776-cara-membuat-arsip-di-file-manager-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/5972776-kaip-archyvuoti-failus-hostinger-failu-tvarkykleje\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5972776-como-criar-um-arquivo-compactado-no-gerenciador-de-arquivos-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/5972776------\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}