Comments on: Mac 101: Create Zip Files

By: Tom Bodetti

Tom Bodetti — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:20:57 +0000

Yes, but what about our poor windows friends, when I send out zip files for production, online, MAC osx, creates all these (really ugly and useless) resource forks, which are great if your sending it to another MAC user, but confusing for our poor windows brethren.

hey take a joke, laugh, I played with a utility to create zip archives that stripes out those nasty, mac only files, but I think I would rather just have that option, to strip it, from the contextual menu,

By: Amaranth

Amaranth — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:00:17 +0000

I tried to create a .zip of 11 pdf files I had this way, byt ‘compressing’ them in Leopard, and it made an Archive.zip file, that LOOKED like a zip file, but the size was not reduced at all….

Can anyone tell me what i’m doing wrong? Or suggest a program I should use? I need to zip and send something fast!

By: Darrell Etherington

Darrell Etherington — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:51:51 +0000

@Bob

You should be able to open the archive just fine, but you’ll have a “_MACOSX” file and a “_MACOSX” folder in addition to the original files you created the archive from on the Mac.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:40:11 +0000

Can pc users open files zipped in a mac?

By: Bram

Bram — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:19:45 +0000

Only problem is that the zips you create aren’t very windows friendly (some Mac system files always find their way in).

Anyone got a solution for that?

By: Joanne

Joanne — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:30:16 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Jenny. I, like you, thought you still had to use WinZip to zip stuff on Windows. Anyway, your post, combined with the comments, has been extremely helpful. Keep ‘em coming!

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:50:51 +0000

Mac OS was the LAST OS to have a .zip compression utility built-in. Remember PKZip? It was ugly and cumbersome, but it was there long before the Mac OS had it.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:58:01 +0000

gosh, Jenny, what were you using? Windows 3.1? That’s a cheap shot at Windows who has had built-in zip for a long time!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:39:55 +0000

John is correct. Built-in since XP.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:55:51 +0000

@elpres @ Josh: same thing with me, I haven’t used Windows in a VERY long time, but when I used to use it I thought you had to install a 3rd party app.