Do you ship support files in a Zip Archive?

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Does not works here.

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That is not working because you are probably using an azerty keyboard. The layout is totally different from the qwerty keyboard. Maybe that using Command+Shift+: does work.

(On the azerty keyboard the : is at the position where the . is on a qwerty keyboard.)

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I tried some other keyboard shortcuts (yes, I do not feared to consequences…) but I failed.

I’ve made a Google search and find videos (beurk) and wrong solutions, so I left that behind me.

I even asked Tahoe’s Help, that failed too (wrong answer).

QWERTY <> AZERTY: sometimes the AZERTY shortcuts have no sense cmd-- = enlarge the image in the Finder, and cmd-) decrease the image size !

I even found how to display a Command window (with buttons) by error and I do not know where this window is meant to be used (Found in the Finder)…

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It might be worthwhile to use the MacOS terminal version of zip with the -9 switch to give the the highest compression and see if the zip file is smaller?

zip -r -9 archive1.zip foldername

And

zip -r archive2.zip foldername

Here are the sizes I got from a general folder with: ls -l archive1.zip

archive1.zip 194518901 Compared to archive2.zip 362360141

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It’s looking like there were custom icons in many of the files, causing the resource forks to get big.

Windows doesn’t need or use that data.

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They use Thumbs.db to cache icons for images. Windows will use that file to display a preview of the images files contents.

I deleted my previously send data because Tahoe situation regarding invisibles is… dark (is it still using them and hide to everyone ? I wasn’t able to see them using an AppleScript (choose file with invisibles does not returns .DS_Store, only the Folder Custom Icon - I do not tested a file with a custom icon, so I do not know the icon file name in that case .
Tested with a folder i am working in nearly everyday in the last 3 months (Folder with a Custom Icon located at 0,0).

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Using:


Var f As FolderItem = FolderItem.ShowSelectFolderDialog()

If f <> Nil Then
  Var child_FI As FolderItem
  Var file_Idx As Integer
  
  For file_Idx = 0 To f.Count - 1
    child_FI = f.ChildAt(file_Idx)
    TA.AddText child_FI.Name + EndOfLine
    
    If UserCancelled Then Exit
  Next
End If

in a Button, sending results in a TextArea (TA), I was able to confirm that Tahoe hides from AppleScript the .DS_Store file.

The only invisibles items in the tested folder with a custom icon are:
.DS_Store
Icon

There is an invisible character after Icon in the TextArea, it is removed by the Forum software.

HTH.

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It’s great that Jeff has a solution that he’s happy with. For others looking for a more robust zipping solution on the Mac, I second Tim and others’ endorsement of Keka. It’s got just about everything one could want in a simple and inexpensive package. Here’s a screen shot of the settings screen:

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Inexpensive being free of all charge if you download it from the website.

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Just throwing this out there
PeaZip has been around for 20 years, may or may not do what you need but it is also free

PeaZip

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True, but the dev does request a tip if one likes the program. It’s all of $4 on the Mac App Store; a one time cost equivalent to a single of a coffee,. I’ve gotten my money’s worth many times over. I think we can all agree that a developer deserves to be paid for a well written and useful program :wink: