Zipping/Archiving Photos on a Mac

[DSF]

Hi all, most of our photos are stored on my girlfriend's iMac. I want to burn backups to DVD, but we're well over 15-20GB of data last I checked. I'm not really familiar with MacOS, so I don't know what the best free compression utilities are.

Any thoughts? The only must-have is that the archive files should be decompressible in Windows without too much trouble.

 

[Tyranicus]

OS X has built-in zip creation. Just highlight the files you want to archive, right-click, and select "Compress _ items."

 

[randomlinh]

just to give you a heads up... your pictures aren't really much more compressible if they are jpeg. You're better off use burning the images across multiple DVDs.

 

[Tyranicus]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
just to give you a heads up... your pictures aren't really much more compressible if they are jpeg. You're better off use burning the images across multiple DVDs.

That's not quite true. If you compress many jpeg images in one archive you will save space by getting rid of all the unused bits in the assigned blocks.