[OT] .ds_store Messing Up ZIP

[wouter]

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Greetings,
Wouter

On 04 Jan 2006, at 02:21, Ton Kuypers wrote:

> I use Stuffit to create SIT files for distribution to Macs and ZIP  
> files for distribution to Windows users... And Stuffit has got an  
> option NOT to copy these pesky hidden files...
> Works perfect, can advice it to anyone!
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
>
> Ton Kuypers
> Digital Media Partners bvba
> Tel. +32 (0)477 / 739 530
> Fax +32 (0)14 / 71 03 04
> http://www.dmp-int.com
>
>
>
> 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?
>>
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