I'm trying to release a WordPress theme on my site which I've developed on the Mac. When I sent it to my friend with a PC, he unzipped it and noticed it generated empty files based on the names of the subdirectories (see attached image). Also when you first open the .zip, there's an empty folder called __MACOSX. Any idea how to keep the whole package a little more clean?
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Those are standard Mac metadata files that will be created on any filesystem that doesn't have native support for said metadata and/or Mac file resource forks (which basically means FAT-formatted disks). The same would be true of .DS_Store files, which are view metadata for folders.
A quick Google search turns up this:
http://cybernetnews.com/helpful-tip-create-zip-archives-without-ds_store-on-a-mac/
...which may help.
A quick Google search turns up this:
http://cybernetnews.com/helpful-tip-create-zip-archives-without-ds_store-on-a-mac/
...which may help.
Thanks a lot Makosuke. I think my Googling failed because I wasn't quite sure how to phrase my question and wasn't sure what the metadata/resource fork stuff was called. Price of being a newb 
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