{"id":52658,"date":"2026-07-20T11:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52658"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:27:35","slug":"notarytool-cant-handle-zip64-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/20\/notarytool-cant-handle-zip64-files\/","title":{"rendered":"notarytool Can&rsquo;t Handle Zip64 Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wadetregaskis.com\/apples-notarytool-cant-handle-zip64-files\/\">Wade Tregaskis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/wadetregaskis.com\/apples-notarytool-cant-handle-zip64-files\/\">\n<p>In short: if you have <em>any<\/em> file in your app (or whatever it is you&rsquo;re trying to get Apple to sign) that is over 4 GiB, you must use a disk image (DMG) to package it for notarytool, not a zip file.<\/p>\n<p>This is because support for files larger than 4 GiB requires using the &ldquo;Zip64&rdquo; zip file format, which would be fine except Apple&rsquo;s notary servers can&rsquo;t handle them. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/21\/altool-update-and-notarytool\/\">altool Update and notarytool<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wade Tregaskis: In short: if you have any file in your app (or whatever it is you&rsquo;re trying to get Apple to sign) that is over 4 GiB, you must use a disk image (DMG) to package it for notarytool, not a zip file. This is because support for files larger than 4 GiB requires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-07-20T15:27:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"a1483f8a-58a6-45ae-9d7f-55aaeb074973","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-07-20T15:27:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AoUg_ilimRa6df1Wq6wdJcw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,2742,1842,71,2673],"class_list":["post-52658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-notarization","tag-programming","tag-zip-archive"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52659,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52658\/revisions\/52659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}