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10.4: Test .zip archives in the Finder with Automator
Authored by: osxpounder on Jul 27, '06 01:24:29PM

As a person who does similar work, I'd be interested to see a reply to that question, too: why bother zipping a file that won't compress much?

I can think of a few reasons, but I won't second-guess your motives. I'm interested in what you think. I'll just point out that a ZIP can keep relative folder and file locations intact, in case your project relies on such things. I think sometimes OSX has trouble unzipping files that contains 2 or more folders of the same name, but can't reproduce the problem right now, so I'm not even sure I remember that right.



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