[X4U] Is there a way...

Randy B. Singer randy at macattorney.com
Wed Jan 21 03:01:57 PST 2009


On Jan 20, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Ed Gould wrote:

> I am using 10.4.11 and I am using the archive pulldown option menu  
> to create zip files of highlighted files in the folder. It does  
> work as advertised but it is causing me no end of grief as it  
> creates a file called ARCHIVE.ZIP which I guess is fine but what I  
> need to do is to have the system ask me the name of the zip file it  
> is creating. Right now I have to manually rename it and it is time  
> consuming and prone to error.
>
> Does anyone know how to make the system ask me what the name should  
> be?

Try this little zip utility:

YemuZip (free)
http://www.yellowmug.com/yemuzip/

ZemuZip is fast and easy to use, and as a side-benefit it allows you  
to create zip archives that are more compatible with Windows.

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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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