[OT] .ds_store Messing Up ZIP

[Ton Kuypers]

Sorry... forgot to mention I'm using Stuffit Deluxe 9...
In the preferences I can set "Ignore Finder desktop files", THAT  
prevents copying all invisible files into the ZIP.


Warm regards,


Ton Kuypers
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On 4-jan-06, at 01:14, 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?