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I;m trying to zip an addon that I have created for kodi on a mac. For some reason it refuses to install. I have tried to use yemuzip, and terminal's zip. Any ideas here? I'm on yosemite.

Kodi will install other addon zips that I have downloaded but not the ones that I create myself. I can download a working zip, unzip it then zip it again, and it will not work.

Any help?

Do you get any specific error? Debug log?

debug log (wiki)

might be those hidden .DS_Store / __MACOSX (or whatever they're called) files/folders
that are automatically added when you create a zipfile on mac?


if you can't figure it out, post a link to your zipfile and we'll have a look.

It is the hidden files like .DS_Store which cause the problem. You could open terminal and manually zap those 'gremlins' before zipping. I use CleanArchiver (freeware) to remove hidden files and zip the addons folder. Download it from MacUpdates.