PKZip

[Ian in Northampton]

This has to be one of the more esoteric questions ever asked on here...

I use PKZip to unzip files, dragging the unzipped files from the PKZip window to the Windows Explorer window.  Strangely, all file names of files so dealt with are in green rather than black, which seems strange...

However, what's really strange and hugely annoying - given that when Windows Explorer is copying directories, it just stops and aborts whenever it finds a file it can't copy - is that these green-named files won't copy, and thus cause Explorer to abort the whole process.

Thus, two questions:

1.  Does anyone know why this is?

2. Does anyone know of a (free) directory/file copying utility that doesn't just terminate whne it finds a file it can't deal with?

[Ian in Northampton]

Hah! Belatedly, I Googled 'green file name'. It turns out this is an issue with files zipped on a (bloody) Mac.  The fix is to go to file properties, advanced, and uncheck 'encrypt contents to secure data'.  You live and learn. 

[Dr Keyboard]

So the solution, as ever, is 'Buy a Mac', no?

[Ian in Northampton]

No. A thousand times no.  There is not a problem in the world to which the solution is to buy a Mac.  Unless you want to pay well over the odds for a doorstop.   

[Dr Keyboard]

Wow. When you're wrong, you're wrong. Right?

[Ian in Northampton]

Are you my wife in disguise?   

[Dr Keyboard]

To bring together your last two posts Ian: If a man speaks in the forest and no one hears him, is he still wrong?

[Ian in Northampton]

LOL...