I have the ZIP command working now with all switches performing as expected. This is the command I am using, stripped down to the bare essentials: zip -g -r -v /Volumes/programbkup/John/Mac/20070627/FridayBackup_20070627.zip /source\ code/Applescript* Here I am attempting to back up all compiled script files as well as several auxiliary files as well (mostly test files to run the scripts against--a mixture of text and INDD files). When I inspect the archive created I find that all compiled scripts have been zeroed out. Just to be thorough I extracted the files and looked at the compiled script files, and they were all 1k files. These files are usually much, much larger than 1k. Do I need to use a special switch to save compiled scripts? Are there issues with the resource fork that I should consider?