Why do my zip files automatically unzip when I drag them to an external hard drive?

[MacLover2011]

No doubt this is a preference issue. But I'll just ask anyway because I am curious. Why do the zip files I drag to my external hard drive unzip automatically?

 

[Raz0rEdge]

I'm not aware of any setting that automatically unzips files to an external drive. How are you doing the copy, just dragging the file?

 

[MacLover2011]

I'm not aware of any setting that automatically unzips files to an external drive. How are you doing the copy, just dragging the file?

That is correct. I am just dragging the zip files to an external hard drive.

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Do you have any ZIP specific programs installed that might be doing this for you? This isn't default macOS behavior.