It also will attempt to get a unique name for the final archive in case there is already a file with the chosen archive name. Here's a script which will combine multiple files into one archive.
I figured why not just make it a droplet? Copy and paste the following into Script Editor and save it as an application: on open (theItems) -receive items dropped onto droplet as a list -incase you're trying to compress something really big on your Rev A iMac: with timeout of 1000000 seconds try tell application "Finder" -repeat the command to compress each item as an individual archive repeat with oneItem in theItems -used to extract the name and location of the file set itemProp to properties of oneItem -where the file is set itemPath to quoted form of POSIX path of oneItem -where the compressed file should end up set destFold to quoted form of POSIX path of ¬ (container of itemProp as alias) -what the name of the file is set itemName to name of oneItem -do it, do it now do shell script ¬ ("ditto -c -k -X -rsrc -keepParent " & itemPath & ¬ " " & destFold & "'" & itemName & "'" & ".zip") end repeat end tell on error errmsg -should anything go wrong let the user know display dialog errmsg end try end timeoutend open
zip files and people were doing it with folder action scripts.
I came across some hints on using the ditto command to create.
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