[OT] .ds_store Messing Up ZIP

[Phil Davis]

dot-file removal is one of my standard steps when creating a 
cross-platform CD. From what little I can tell, I assume those files are 
probably Mac resource forks that only show up on a platform that doesn't 
understand them (Windows). Is that the way you guys understand them?

Phil Davis



Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Scott Rossi wrote:
> 
>> I've been plagued by this enough that I thought I would ask...
>>
>> For me, creating simple ZIP archives on Mac systems that contain a few 
>> files
>> is usually straightforward.  However, I often find that when the ZIP
>> archives starts to contain nested subfolders, I often wind up with 
>> invisible
>> .ds_store files that corrupt the archive when it comes time to 
>> decompress on
>> Windows systems.  The only recourse seems to be to move folders over to
>> Windows, delete any .ds_store files, and compress there.
>>
>> Is there any Mac utility out there that allows one to poke around 
>> inside a
>> ZIP archive to delete these extraneous .ds_store files?  Or even better,
>> some way to tell Stuffit to ignore/delete these files in the first place?
> 
> 
> Or one step better, a way to tell the OS not to pollute transferred 
> directories with that OS-specific crap?
> 
> It wreaks havoc with all but a few MP3 players, and really should be 
> something the user can control.
>