Compressing folders on a mac, without the .DS_Store
Problem
Is there anyway to get rid of the .DS_Store when compressing a folder on a mac? I work on a mac and send work to clients in zip format, but always get questioned on the .DS_Store folder inside them. It seems to be unavoidable unless I open the folder on Windows then delete the .DS_Store and compress it there. It is quite a big hassle. Are there any easy work arounds?
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Fix for: Compressing folders on a mac, without the .DS_Store
If you do not mind jumping down in to terminal, then this is pretty darn easy. If you are in , which is your $HOME directory and there is a subdirectory named foo that you want to zip but ignore all .DS_Store files, then do the following: To interpret this, we are running the zip executable with the following parameters/arguments: for recursively including all directories underneath the targets we want to zip. is the name of the zip archive we are creating is the target directory we want to zip…
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