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When I zip hidden files and folder and unzip on a Windows PC, they do not remain hidden. I tried to hide them with dot and also with the command chflags hidden.
Is there anything I can do? It happens only when sending Mac to Windows, Mac to Mac works fine.
I managed to do it with StuffIt expander
I did have to click "merge" and "skip" 32 times but it eventually did the trick..
Archive Utility can be lightly configured. The easy way to do it is to open an archive file and as soon as you see a progress dialog, hit Command (⌘) + , in order to bring up the app preferences.
Otherwise, you can manually open the Archive Utility alone by browsing to /System/Library/CoreServices and opening Archive Utility.app. Afterwards, you can use the Archive Utility menu to get to the preferences, or again use Command (⌘) + , to open the app's preferences up.
Best Answer
The filesystem running on macOS and Windows handles hidden files differently. The two approaches, i.e. prepending a dot
.character to filename or usingchflags hiddenwon't work as it will set the file as hidden on Mac and not on Windows.The filenames prepended with
.will remain hidden on any UNIX/Linux system.You can hide files on Windows by getting properties on a file and checking the "hidden" box on the general tab. This will only hide a file if you don't change the default behavior of Windows Explorer to keep hidden files hidden.