Note that no option to enter a password is offered, just a flat out failure. The Compressed (zipped) Folder 'F:\taxes2017.zip' is invalid I decided to test if I could test if the encrypted file would remain encrypted in a PC environment which is where it would likely end up, and found again to my amazement that it was at least still encrypted (thats good) but that it couldn't be unzipped: Compressed (zipped) Folders Error Otherwise I've installed all updates to mavericks. The machine is too old to update to the newest OSX Sierra per apple support, but could update Yosemite or El Capitan, but not desirable or possible since I have little working hard drive space left in my machine - hovering around 7 GB - so I don't have space for it.
(If this makes you nervous, perhaps you can check if google drive opens your mac-command-line-encrypted zip files too). I uploaded the file to google drive and did a last minute check that is was password protected and found to my amazement it unzipped without requiring a password - every file and folder visible there! In shock I went back and checked my file on my mac and confirmed that I wasn't crazy and that it was still password protected there. (I want truly secure files to be viewed only by receiving party to whom I give password.) So I uploaded to, then found they only allowed viewing of folder not transfer, which is a problem because it means it will be unzipped in the cloud which is not what I want. I found the file was too large to email - like 42 mb, so I carved it down removing unnecessary content, but it was still closer to 40 mb. This worked, creating the zip file, and when clicking on it I get a pop up with an "Archive Utility" window: "Please enter password for ".DS_Store". Note that "zip -er" stands for "zip", "encrypted" and "recursive" which is used to get all the folder contents if zip/encrypting a folder as opposed to a file which is just "zip -e", and that I've used "\" to escape unix problem characters. STUFF/Taxes/Taxes\ Tax\ Year\ 2017-copy/\_Tax\ Docs\ assembled\ 2017/ Users/barbara/Desktop/taxes2017.zip /Users/barbara/Desktop/BARB\'S\ I'm trying to send my tax info securely through email or a web file transfer service like, or google drive, and created an encrypted folder containing the many image files of my business expenses and tax stuff using the command line (using "Terminal" app) as follows: $Barbaras-MacBook-Air:~ barbara$ zip -er
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