to compress selected folders in single zip-archive

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
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#1

Is any way to do the subj ?

“ditto - c” works fine only with single item (file/folder)
other archivers do not create zip file

Any idea?

#2

Hi,

something like this?


tell application "Finder" to set theFolders to selection
repeat with oneFolder in theFolders
	if (folder of (info for oneFolder as alias)) then
		tell (POSIX path of (oneFolder as alias)) to set {|source|, destination} to {it, it's text 1 thru -2 & ".zip"}
		do shell script ("/usr/bin/ditto -c -k " & quoted form of |source| & " " & quoted form of destination)
	end if
end repeat
#3

Well, but script create as much archives as much folders selected
However I need to get single archive which incorporate the selected folders

Anymore ideas?

#4

sorry, I read single zip-archives.

An option is to copy the folders into a temporary folder, create the archive and delete the temporary folder

#5

Thanx!
Good idea!

#6

Here is an example