Comments on: How to Zip Files in Mac OS X

By: How to Exclude Files from a Zip Archive

How to Exclude Files from a Zip Archive — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:15:37 +0000

[...] to exclude many specific files or a group of matched files from a zip archive is by skipping the easy zipping utility built into Mac OS X’s friendly UI and turn over to the command line, where the powerful zip [...]

By: Fix Archive Utility When It Stops Working, Crashes, or Freezes in Mac OS X

Fix Archive Utility When It Stops Working, Crashes, or Freezes in Mac OS X — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:27:53 +0000

[...] will now be able to extract and create archives as usual [...]

By: MariaX

MariaX — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:33:50 +0000

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By: jj

jj — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:35:48 +0000

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By: King

King — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:02:32 +0000

Thanks, I needed these simple instructions! I used to use Stuffit, but now I can just right click. Great!

By: Row

Row — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:18:04 +0000

Thank you for your article. I am a college student and have bought my very first Mac lab top. Your article was very useful for me always being a windows user.

Thank you very much!

By: Get Crash Reports & Logs From iPhone or iPad Without Xcode

Get Crash Reports & Logs From iPhone or iPad Without Xcode — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:27:42 +0000

[...] app name you want the crash reports from, copy that out of the folder, or copy multiple logs and zip them up for the [...]

By: How to Create a Tar GZip File from the Command Line

How to Create a Tar GZip File from the Command Line — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:31:24 +0000

[...] probably familiar with making your own zip files if you’ve ever needed to transfer a group of files or if you’re managing your own [...]

By: Set Archives to Automatically Delete After Expansion in Mac OS X

Set Archives to Automatically Delete After Expansion in Mac OS X — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:59:59 +0000

[...] Newly extracted archives will now delete themselves, making this a perfect solution for those of us who don’t want a Downloads folder full of leftover .zip files. [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:11:24 +0000

Sorry… a typo.
-rf (–datafork) should be:
-df (–datafork)

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:06:30 +0000

@Henning
You can try adding -rf (–datafork)

zip -df foo.zip foo.txt

To exclude certain files. Use: -x “xxxx”

For your example it would be:
zip foo.zip foo.txt -x “*__MACOSX”

(the quotes (“) are ⇧+2 incase this comment field transforms them into something else. )

If you zip a folder? you can add -r … zip -r foo.zip foo … to include subfolders.

In terminal type: man zip
to bring up the zip manual.

@Hipolito
You can try:
zip yourbigfile.zip –out smallzips.zip -s 10m

That is for 10mb files like: smallzips.zip smallzips.z01 smallzips.z02
But you could use another compression to make smaller file instead. Look at tar gzip bzip etc. 1 file is always better that 2.

By: Hipolito

Hipolito — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:19:12 +0000

You should publish something more useful…Instead of how to create a ZIP file why not “how to create a splitted ZIP file” which is sometimes needed (Try to upload a file bigger than 100Mb to M$ Skydrive)….

By: Henning

Henning — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:39:32 +0000

Is it possible to create a Zip-Archiv without the hidden MACOSX Folder?

Greetings Henning

By: Americo

Americo — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:30:58 +0000

You know everything, you are amazing!

Welp OS XDaily, you better shut down your website, ArtFeel knew this one!

By: Idjit

Idjit — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:53:32 +0000

Command+N