Lets say I have a large .zip file in Google Drive with multiple images. Now I wish to download one particular file from this .zip file without downloading the entire .zip file. Is that possible? I checked there are apps like zip extractor, not sure it works. I tried but it takes forever to download the file. You may understand that the .zip file is in GBs.
Google-drive – Download one particular file from a large .zip file in Google Drive
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Seems file may be bigger than maximum allowed for download:
You can't zip single files, but if you download multiple files at once Google will zip all of the files.
Easiest option is to select your large file, then Ctrl+Click (Cmd+Click on Mac) on a second file, and right click either file and select "Download". Google will then take an astronomical amount of time to process the two files and eventually let you download a zip of the two files.
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Best Answer
There's nothing built in to Google Drive for working with ZIP files. You would need to use a Google Drive add-on. I'm sure there are several.
Of course, if you sync to your PC with the Google Drive sync tool, unless you've excluded that folder, the ZIP file is already on your hard drive.