Something weird I've noticed with Zip files and OSX recently (both on 10.7 and 10.6.*).
Situation: a .zip file with sub-folder and long file names within it. When it's extracted on Windows it extracts all items within their sub-folders properly. When extracted on OSX it does not extract them into sub-folders but puts them all in one folder and then takes the subfolder names and adds it to the file name so you have a super long file name like this:
folder/sub-folder/itemname.extension
But it's not in subfolders.
that make sense? Anyone figure out why this happens? I'm not sure what the character length is that triggers this because other files extract fine, just certain ones that exceed a character limit in the name…
Best Answer
This isn't answering your question, but might I suggest you try The Unarchiver - I find it much better than Archive Utility.app. I've used it for years and never seen the problem you've experienced with Apple's utility.