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10.4: Test .zip archives in the Finder with Automator
Authored by: rjetton on Jul 27, '06 05:21:37PM

I agree. The time spent trying to compress these media files is probably a lot more than the few seconds saved in their file transfer.

Have you considered using tar (without compression)? It preserves relative file pathnames like zip, and is very fast compared to zip.



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10.4: Test .zip archives in the Finder with Automator
Authored by: qwerty denzel on Jul 28, '06 12:15:22AM

Or create a disk image using disk utility? It's probably not as fast as tar, but is nonetheless very useful, and quite easy to make.



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why zip?
Authored by: ngb on Jul 31, '06 02:55:48PM

I think zip is slightly more universal than tar, in terms of distributing an archive to both Mac and PC users. I can appreciate the need to send files organized as an archive, rather than willy-nilly, even if there is no siginicant space savings.



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