Severin Crisp wrote:
II recently sent a file "zipped" by "Make Archive" in the Finder to a Windows user. She could not open it. I zipped it again using Stuffit v9 and she had no trouble. Yesterday I downloaded two zipped files from Inkjetmall and neither the Finder nor Stuffit could open them though I have had no trouble with files from them in the past. They finally opened using "Panther Unzip". What is the score here, all the files had similar icons and visible attributes as far as I looked. It rather defeats the purpose of a universal(?) format if it is touchy. I never had any trouble with Stuffit files but then they are Mac only and the Windows mob have not had a chance to screw it up. Maybe I am being overly harsh?
If you typed in a file name like myzip.zip ie you put the .zip on, make sure you saved it as a zip archive, someone sent me a tar archive with the .zip on the end, took ages to open it (had to try all the different options)
Regards, Kat.
