Compress Files 2.0

Compress Files is a program designed for compressing, mailing, and archiving your files.

Invisible Mac-specific files can be extremely annoying when you transfer Zip files to other systems. Windows and Linux make these files visible and they could create confusion to recipients that receive your files. Compress Files is a very useful tool for compressing, mailing, and archiving your files and it lets you omit Mac-specific invisible files.

Supported Archive Formats

Compress Files creates Zip compressed archives (.zip); TAR archives (.tar); Gzip compressed archives (.tar.gz) and Bzip2 compressed archives (.tar.bz2).

Compress Files is easy to use.

To compress a file, simply drag and drop the file you want to compress onto the Compress Files icon. If Compress Files is closed, the program will launch and compress your files. You can also compress files by dragging files into the application window.

Just launch Compress Files and the window will appear.
You can compress more than one file by dragging multiple items onto Compress Files window, and you can also compress larger groups of files by placing them in a folder and dragging the whole folder onto Compress Files.

Omitting Mac-specific invisible files
Invisible Mac-specific files can be extremely annoying when you transfer Zip files to other systems. Windows and Linux make these files visible and they could create confusion to recipients that receive your files. Typically, if you are sending files to a Windows and Linux user you do not need to include this information, as it will not be used on a Windows-based or a Linux-based computer.

Compress Files let you specify if you want omit Finder specific information (such as a .DS_Store files) and Mac specific file attributes (such as a resource fork) when creating Zip archives.

Trashing original files after the archive was created. This option determines whether or not the original files have to be moved into the Trash after the archive was created.