I had the need to select several folders at once in the Mac OS Finder and zip them up as individual archives. This AppleScript to compress files and folders was the solution I came up with.
The script compresses each item selected into its own archive, and works with both folders and files.
tell application "Finder"
set theList to selection
repeat with i from 1 to (count of theList)
set theItem to (item i of theList) as alias
set itemPath to quoted form of POSIX path of theItem
set fileName to name of theItem
set theFolder to POSIX path of (container of theItem as alias)
set zipFile to quoted form of (theFolder & fileName & ".zip")
do shell script "zip -jr " & zipFile & " " & itemPath
end repeat
end tell
As always, you’ll get the best results when used with FastScripts by Red Sweater Software.
Interesting….
This is almost something I was needing. However I need to:
1 – select a folder from Finder
2 – store the folder name to say “x”
2 – in that folder “x”, compress all files and sub-folders with path
3 – rename the zip file to x.zip
and I don’t know AppleScript. Can you show me?
oh…and
4 – delete all the files that created the zip file.
The purpose of the zip file is to conserve space on my hard drive.
Thanks!