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Zip File Flattener

Removes a single common top-level folder from a .zip archive, so its contents sit at the root of a new zip instead of one level deeper.

Why it exists

Common with GitHub downloads and some export tools that wrap everything in one named folder — flattening makes the archive easier to extract in place.

How to use it

Drop a .zip file. If every entry shares one top-level folder, a button appears to flatten and download a new zip.

Good to know

Only works when there's a single common top-level folder shared by every entry. Archives with multiple top-level items have nothing to flatten.

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