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Just set the preference!
Authored by: sjonke on Nov 05, '01 11:26:17AM

In DropStuff just go into preferences and click the checkbox next to "Stuff each items as an individual archive". Then it's just a command-a in the folder and drag onto drop stuff. No command-line needed. For extra convenience, drag DropStuff into the Finder toolbar so it's right there for use. Same thing can be done with DropZip if you prefer .zip format. Lastly, note that if you hold the option key while dropping files/folders onto DropStuff or DropZip it will bring up the prefs dialog for temporary settings so that you can just use this setting as needed rather than setting it as the default.



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Thanks, nice tip!
Authored by: tomsinclair on Nov 06, '01 06:21:39PM

It just goes to show that "There's always more than one way to do it".

I did it my way because, as an old UNIX hack, I'm more comfortable scripting tasks
like this. But now I'll try out your trick as well...



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