control click to save .zip file creates problematic _prefix

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control click to save .zip file creates problematic _prefix

I'm trying to save a website folder from my computer as a .zip in order to extract it into the site server. There is a problem with the way 10.6 creates the zip. every item in the original folder suddenly has an _underscore prefix. How do I zip the folder without this issue?

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Darryl

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Posted on Jun 27, 2011 8:49 PM

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Barney-15E

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Jun 27, 2011 10:15 PM in response to seeinghuman

The built-in archive function doesn't exclude those files. You can use the command line zip utility to create them without the metadata. I created an automator service that will call that zip routine with the correct options, but it's on another computer. When I can get to it, I'll post how I did it.

The option is -df to only copy the data fork.

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