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=== Note to Mac OS X users ===
Note to template developers using Mac OS X systems: the Finder's "compress" menu item produces a usable ZIP format package, but with one catch. It stores the files in '''AppleDouble''' format, adding extra files with names beginning with "<tt>._</tt>". Thus it adds a file named "<tt>._templateDetails.xml</tt>", which Joomla 1.5.x can sometimes misinterpret. The symptom is an error message, "XML Parsing Error at 1:1. Error 4: Empty document". The workaround is to compress from the command line, and set a shell environment variable "COPYFILE_DISABLE" to "true" before using "compress" or "tar". See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSingle_and_AppleDouble_formats AppleDouble] article for more information.

To set an environment variable on a Mac, open a terminal window and type:
 export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true

Then in the same terminal window, change directories into where your template files reside and issue the zip command.  For instance, if your template files have been built in a folder in your personal directory called myTemplate, then you would do the following:
 cd myTemplate
 zip -r myTemplate.zip *

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