[OT] .ds_store Messing Up ZIP

Ton Kuypers tkuypers at pandora.be
Tue Jan 3 20:21:20 EST 2006


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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