[wil]

Any zipped file I create using any OS (OS X, OS 9, Win XP) or engine (stuffit, panther built-in, xp built-in):

Unzipping said file in Panther using either the built-in zip thingy (Bomhelper or some such thing) or Stuffit Expander consistently results in all of the original files becoming generic.

if I unstuff those files on any other OS, the problem does not exist. Only on Panther.

EXCEPTION: If i compress it using the built-in Panther zip, and uncompress it using the built-in Panther unzip it works just fine.

thoughts?

(I've done a search and found nothing related to this specifically)

[Ratm]

What exactly do you mean by generic. Do the files continue to function properly or are they corrupted in the process and are no longer executable.

[wil]

Originally posted by Ratm:
What exactly do you mean by generic. Do the files continue to function properly or are they corrupted in the process and are no longer executable.

The files work, but previews get lost and the icon becomes generic.

So when I open a quark file I have to open it from Quark, no double click, all of my links update with generic gray boxes.

I should add that all of my files are named with no weird characters, no spaces (all underscore) and extensions are in place.

[cpac]

so is it just that you're losing a custom preview icon? This probably happens because the info is stored in a resource fork, which is not preserved via .zip compression. Panther may have an internal work around, but there are no resource forks in Windows, e.g., that's the whole reason you HAD to have file extensions in the first place.

If you're losing more than the custom preview, you'll need to be more specific.

[wil]

Originally posted by cpac:
so is it just that you're losing a custom preview icon? This probably happens because the info is stored in a resource fork, which is not preserved via .zip compression. Panther may have an internal work around, but there are no resource forks in Windows, e.g., that's the whole reason you HAD to have file extensions in the first place.

If you're losing more than the custom preview, you'll need to be more specific.

okay, sorry. i may just be describing the normal zip happenings.

in the past (pre-Panther), when I created a zip file, i used Stuffit DropZip. decompressing this file on the mac resulted in exactly what I stuffed. I'm not sure what happened on a PC (but that's something I should find out).

Now, when I compress any file using any zip format (gzip, zip, stuffit dropzip, and even panther's built-in archive thing) unstuffing that file results in generic icons which no longer connect to the applications that created them. My eps files lose their previews. I can use these files, but they have to be resaved/linked in order to regain their full functionality.

the one exception to this rule is if I zip a file using Panther's archive thing and unzip it using /System/Library/CoreServices/BOMArchiveHelper.app

I'm not sure if I just fubared my system when I selected that BOMArchiveHelper.app. i.e. I'm not sure if the unzipping was fine before I started using that application.

[wil]

now...i'm not so sure. it's quite possible that it's always been like this. sorry to start a thread over something meaningless.

i think that apple tries to "fix" the normal zip behavior with it's Panther archive by keeping the resource stuff. unfortunately, no other compression utility knows what to do with that and I can't send my files to windows people with that mac os x stuff added to the archive. oof.

[MrNo]

I think I've read somewhere about this particular problem in Panther. I'll try to gind the link. Can you see file extensions after you unzip the file. If not just add them and then it should be associated with the appropriate application.