Xrnx Howto Osx: Create Xrnx (Zip) Manually Without Including Metadata

Renoise Tool Development
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Mac OS X has a built in .zip maker which is handy but it includes metadata like .DS_Store and __MACOSX.
Renoise has a problem if you used this to create your xrnx. Also those files show up if you were to extract on a PC which is kind of confusing.
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This free app http://www.kekaosx.com/en/ let’s you you create .zips that don’t have any of the metadata so they’ll install nicely on Renoise.
alternatively http://www.sopht.jp/en/cleanarchiver/ or http://www.yellowmug.com/yemuzip/ can do the same thing

So install and run it. Change format to ZIP. Tick the box to remove resource forks, i think this stops ds_store from being included.
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Select the files of your script
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Drag those files to the Keka icon in the dock and it will produce a .zip
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Once the .zip is created right click on it and select Get Info
it’ll look like this
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type in the new name making sure it ends in .xrnx and press enter e.g. ExampleToolGui.xrnx
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Now you should be able to install successfully
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Even after the xrnx installer error is figured out I think it’s still good advice to produce clean .xrnx files.

You can always use Bantai’s script to export XRNXs http://tools.renoise.com/tools/create-tool

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Bantai’s ExportTool tool does this job wonderfully on Windows, does this one doesn’t work properly on Mac?

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Just tried Export Tool. it produces a working .xnrx, yeah.
noticed it does include the harmless .DS_Store file.

I only wrote the guide here as a solution for making the .zips manually in OSX.