With WordPress 2.7 you can install a plugin by selecting the package directly. zip file downloaded to your computer. This "store" is transferred to our server where it is "extracted". Unfortunately some developers when they create. Zip file from the Mac, also fit into this archive folders (and files) on the Mac, the plugin is not necessary, as the folder __MACOSX . Extracting the archive creates folders and files on our server (in the plugins) WordPress producing confounding of Warning (visible when activated on the server).
Before sending a packet, so that it does not contain folders sinceratevi abnormal. To be sure, from now on, check the. Zip and, if necessary, remove the folders __MACOSX .
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I bet that someone will use this issue to attack even the Mac world ...
@ Vik: those who use the Mac to produce records. ZIP should be careful in the same way as those who use a PC. The issue is that the majority of web hosting provided by Server are Linux based, so the same goes for everyone. If a holder of a PC creates a file "corrupt", this will give problems to WordPress. So "guess" that nobody will be foolish enough to "attack" the Mac world!