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Create Windows-compatible zip files via AppleScript
Authored by: bluehz on Sep 08, '05 06:11:53PM

This only seems to be addressing the issue of .DS_Store files appearing on Windows based PC's upon compression, which to me is only a minor nusiance to the end-user. What I consider to be a much more critical issue is when a PC user expands a Mac OS X compressed zip archive and they end up with 2 dirs inside the one main dir of the archive. Usually the 2nd dir is named "Mac OS X" or something to that effect and appears to contain duplicates of the real files located in the other dir. Now we as Mac users tend to understand those are remnants of resource enabled files from the Mac world but it gives the PC users no end of grief.

Does anyone have a solution for that problem?



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Create Windows-compatible zip files via AppleScript
Authored by: Onirix on Sep 08, '05 11:14:33PM

I will have to say that I revert back to using Stuffit Delux. I use the Archive as zip option when right clicking and using the stuffit contextual menu. It makes zip files with only the .ds_store files. No directory garbage. Kind of ironic that my main use for Stuffit Delux is to zip files.

A shame to. It seems so simple to fix it in OsX. We can open windows zipped files. Why not just have the built-in archive feature zip as windows zip files all the time? I must be missing something.

Anyway, luckily I have stuffit, and patient windows friends.



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Create Windows-compatible zip files via AppleScript
Authored by: haighy on Sep 12, '05 07:14:09PM
To eliminate the "MacOS X" folders you mentioned, you could try deleting the resource forks before zipping. The contextual menu plugin Grim Ripper makes it extremely easy. Be careful though; for certain files (particularly older ones, from pre OS X apps for example) you might lose crucial information, even making them unopenable. Best to make a backup if you're unsure.

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