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. ___________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________