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Geoff

• February 24, 2021 15:51

Maybe I am using this incorrectly but the output zip file does not work as expected.

It will appear empty when opened in windows explorer, but if you open it with say, 7-zip you can see that the entire path is inside the zip so you have to browse to the files.

so the result is this

but open in 7-zip

and you have to go into each folder until you get to the files

So is this normal? it doesnt seem like it is... when you open it, it should show the files in the root of the zip.

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  Adrian Williams

  • February 24, 2021 17:17

  That looks like a bug. Thanks for highlighting the issue.

  Reference LAE-25074

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  Geoff

  • February 24, 2021 17:26

  I figured it was. Thanks Adrian!

   

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  Adrian Williams

  • February 25, 2021 15:56

  Hi Geoff,

  With further consideration it looks like the node may be working (mostly) as expected as the SourcePath is a directory. However there appears to be an issue that the node is creating a directory with an blank name at the root of the archive (as indicated by the double backslash in the path displayed in 7z). 

  I think it would be good to have an enhancement to allow the root of the archive file to correspond with the source directory as this would allow the archived files to appear correctly when using the Windows compressed (zipped) folder utility. I have raised an enhancement request for this option (ref. LAE-25825)

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  Geoff

  • February 25, 2021 16:01

  Sounds good!  

  I think it would also be nice to have an option to include (or not) the path in the zip. Where if you choose to not include it, when you open the zip it would be at the files, instead of the base folder of the path...

   

  THANKS!!

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