#Mac compress folder with password zip file#

Services, go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts andĬhoose Services in the left table. ^⌥⌘C for compressing and ^⌥⌘E for extracting. You can even set keyboard shortcuts for the BetterZip services, e.g., To use a service, select one or more files or folders in the FinderĪnd choose Compress with BetterZip or Extract with BetterZip from theįinder > Services menu or the Services submenu in the contextual menu. You can configure what the BetterZip services will

#Mac compress folder with password zip file#

Rename the folder to whatever you want the ZIP file to be named. Put all these files into a new folder to go on. Open Finder and search all the files/folders you want to zip firstly. Possibly worth a look.īetterZip supports two services: one for extracting and one forĬreating archives. Create Zip Files by Built-in Compression Tool. It is a GUI app, but has Applescript & Services support, with which you can run presets with your default settings - including omitting Mac-specific files like. Only one I've ever really used is BetterZip because you previously used unzip to create it), the -x option will keep it from being packed up. DS_Storeįinally, the accepted answer is the best because if for some reason _MACOSX actually does exist in your directory (e.g. If it's too late, and you already have a zip file with _MACOSX, you can still remove it with: zip -d foo.zip _MACOSX. (You will lose the meta data in the process, but you probably didn't want it anyway.) zip -r dir.zip dir

zip won't create _MACOSX and your problem is solved. The simplest option is to use zip to pack up your zip file instead of the Mac built-in tool. Those tools won't know that _MACOSX is special, and will just unpack it. zip file to Windows or Linux users, or just use the general-purpose unzip program to unpack them. If you use the Mac GUI tools to unpack the zip file, then the tools will know what to do with _MACOSX and the directory won't actually get unpacked. My understanding is that _MACOSX is a subdirectory artificially created by the Mac GUI tools to hold meta data such as extended attributes that can't be normally saved in a zip file.