What Are TGZ, GZ, & TAR.GZ Files?
A file with the TGZ or GZfile extensionis aGzip-compressedTAR archive.
To do this online, you’ve got the option to useB1 Online Archiver.
If you’re on Windows 11, you could open TGZ and GZ files without needing another program.
Just double-click or double-tap the file to get inside.
Some compressed TAR files may look something likeData.tar.gz, with another extension or two in addition to TAR.
A similar naming structure would happen if the TAR file were compressed with BZIP2 compression, creatingData.tar.bz2.
In these types of cases, extracting the GZ, TGZ, orBZ2file will show the TAR file.
This means after opening the initial archive, you have tothenopen the TAR file.
In this example,file.tar.gzis the compressed TAR file name.
This command performs both the decompression and then the expansion of the TAR archive.
TAR.GZ files can also be converted toISOusing theAnyToISOsoftware.
GZIP compression is also used on CPIO files to createCPGZfiles.
Still Can’t Open It?
For example, TG might at first look related to the formats explained above.
ZGR is another that could be confused for a TGZ file.
That extension belongs to BeatSlicer Groove files, and the file opens with a program called FL Studio.
