ZIP fie with no mac hidden files

[simbalala]

Get Parallels or Bootcamp?

umm, on a G4?

[Natobasso]

umm, didn't see your comp.

Virtual PC?

Can you post a screenshot of your directory structure/folder names? Maybe your names are too long? I do know you're dealing with the mac has 2 directory forks and the pc only 1 issue...

[simbalala]

umm, didn’t see your comp.

Virtual PC?

I’m not going to spend any money on this when I have a viable solution using the web server. I think others may benefit from any solution though.

I can’t give you a screenshot because I don’t have a PC here but you can see for yourself. Set up a dummy folder with a couple more inside, nest them. Add some files inside each folder and zip up the top level folder. Move the zip to a PC and unzip it.

Edit: There is actually a PC here but it belongs to my sister. So if I did anything at all techie with it and a meteor came crashing through the roof destroying it I’d get the blame.

[Mikuro]

That problem sounds vaguely familiar, but I've never encountered it myself. Are you sure that still happens with Tiger and Leopard? I don't think I ever used it much in Panther. Back then I used StuffIt to make zips.

Then again, I guess it's possible the people I give zips to just never complained about it. This problem happens on both Windows and Linux?

[simbalala]

I’ve been on the sending side, I’ve never seen the actual result, I don’t really know the people who’ve complained.

It’s a public site with a library of routines and I’ve been told of the problem. It does make sense, we do know that Apple does use colons internally. Try putting one in a file name or just ask an app to give you the HFS path to a file, it’s like so:

Computer:Users:myname:Desktop:test.jpg

Edit: I’m on Tiger and the problems have been reported while I’ve been on Tiger. I was zipping using the contextual menu when the problem was reported, I don’t know if the result is the same when using the command line in Terminal. I just wanted to eliminate the problem for sure so I switched to the safe haven of the Linux webserver.

Anyone here running a dual boot OS X/Windows system or with a Windows PC at hand can check this for us.

[fulmar2]

There is an inexpensive program that does just what you are asking. It creates a ZIP file with no hidden mac files. It's really easy to use (drag and drop). I use it every day! It seems to stumble when there are certain characters in the filenames - but other than that, a solid application.

[bondibox]

You could use the terminal's zip program to "exclude" those files. From the man page:

zip -r foo foo -x \*.o
which will include the contents of foo in foo.zip while excluding all the files that end in .o. The backslash avoids the shell filename substitution, so that the name matching is performed by zip at all directory levels.

Some other examples would be
(#exclude .DS_Store files) zip -r archive.zip myprojectdirectory -x \.DS_Store
(#exclude subversion files) zip -r archive.zip myprojectdirectory -x \.svn
(#exclude all hidden files) zip -r archive.zip myprojectdirectory -x \.*