10.6: An AppleScript to compress a Finder selection
I use my faithful Butler to run Finder's usual operations, like copying, moving, and deleting files, making both my mouse and trackpad completely useless devices. As a keyboard-only user, I also wanted to add some other Finder operations, such as file compression. Here is a small AppleScript, to be run from Butler (or any other script-launcher utility), that will compress the current Finder selection into a .zip archive, with the same name and within the same location. You can launch this script from Butler, triggering it with an abbreviation or a keyboard hotkey. My script is based on this hint and turns it into a Finder-selection script. I didn't test any compression levels, as my only point was to be able to co ...
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