Re: Zip and keep folder structure
Re: Zip and keep folder structure
- Subject: Re: Zip and keep folder structure
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:13:36 -0800
Not at my Mac at the moment, but there's always been a higher-level helper
app for creating archives on Mac OSX? It used to be called BOMArchiveHelper
and has now been renamed Archive Utility, and it's a very simple app that
simply compresses/archives or uncompresses/unarchives files passed to it
via an open event. It's a faceless app that is what the Finder calls when
you archive or unarchive files from the desktop - it serves as a wrapper
around several command line archiving apps, and it seems like the behavior
is more or less what you want and may be a bit friendlier... the only catch
is making sure it's defaults are set to create the archive format you want.
Here's two Mac OSX Hints articles on this app:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071029071230867
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028161249238
Something like:
on open theItems
repeat with thisItem in theItems
tell app "Archive Utility.app" to open thisItem
end
end
Hope that helps -Roger
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