Compressing a folder creates two zip files

I've got a folder called Blanks/ABC FM/SMS/Other and when I compress it I get two zip files of the same size: one with the correct name and the other called Archive.zip. When I remove the space I only get the Archive.zip. When I remove the slashes I get the correct zip file only.
Is this a bug that I should report? How?

If you were expecting C/D to compress to C/D.zip instead of Archive.zip I think I have an explanation for that.
The unix file system which is the underlying OSX file system uses slash (/) as a path delimiter. So to use an example like yours, if you create a folder A on the desktop and B within A then that the pathname is A/B. But in reality, being on your desktop it is /Users/you/A/B, where you is your user id.
The finder tries to allow as many characters as it can for filenames. But the slash it cannot allow in a filename when recorded in the file system. So what it does is actually change the slash to a colon in the actual filename. Thus the filename "A/B" in the finder is, in reality, "A:B" in the file system.
I think this colon-equals-slash naming convention is what causing the finder's Compress to treat the name specially and it just changes it the output to be the generic Archive.zip.
Compress is there as a convenience. There's lots of other ways to do zips. There's third party utilities. There's zip command in the terminal (where you can play the finder's game and generate A:B.zip so that it displays in the finder as A/B.zip).

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Dear all,
Following my yesterday's posting, I would clarify my questions:
I successfully created a zip file which contains a folder structure and two files from strings. See attached codes.
However, I don't like the way that I physically created subfolder and files before add them to the zip file.
Is there any possibility to avoid that part of creating multiple folders?
Regards.
Pengyou
package com.zip.test;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
public class ZipTest {
     static final int BUFFER = 2048;
     public static void main(String argv[]) {
          try {
               BufferedInputStream origin = null;
               FileOutputStream dest = new FileOutputStream("mytest.zip");
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                         dest));
               // out.setMethod(ZipOutputStream.DEFLATED);
               byte data[] = new byte[BUFFER];
               try {
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                    boolean success = (new File(strManyDirectories)).mkdirs();
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                         System.out.println("Directories: " + strManyDirectories
                                   + " created");
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                    BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(
                              new FileWriter(outputFile));
                    bufferedWriter.write("Hello, Test");
                    bufferedWriter.close();
                    File outputFile1 = new File("root/dir1/dir2/test1.html");
                    BufferedWriter bufferedWriter1 = new BufferedWriter(
                              new FileWriter(outputFile1));
                    bufferedWriter1.write("Hello, Test1");
                    bufferedWriter1.close();
               } catch (IOException e) {
               String files[] = { "root/dir1/dir2/test.html",
                         "root/dir1/dir2/test1.html" };
               for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                    System.out.println("Adding: " + files);
                    FileInputStream fi = new FileInputStream(files[i]);
                    origin = new BufferedInputStream(fi, BUFFER);
                    ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(files[i]);
                    out.putNextEntry(entry);
                    int count;
                    while ((count = origin.read(data, 0, BUFFER)) != -1) {
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pengyou wrote:
But I did not understand how to convert a String to ZipOutputStream with a user choosen file name and a user choosen folder structure.
I am blocked at that point. Sorry for repeating the same question.
That doesn't make sense to me. Even more so as your sample code suggests that you are familiar with Writer and ZipEntry concepts. Can you explain in detail where you are stuck or what part of my previous suggestion was unclear to you?
Scratch that, I think I finally understand your problem. I think the following sample code will get you on track:import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
public class ZipTest {
    public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception {
        final String[] content = {"bla", "blubber"};
        final String[] names = {"root/content1/c1.txt", "root/content2/c2.txt"};
        final String path = System.getProperty("user.home") + "/test.zip";
        ZipOutputStream zos = new ZipOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(path));
        BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(zos, "UTF-8"));
        for (int i = 0; i < content.length; ++i) {
            final ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(names);
zos.putNextEntry(entry);
bw.write(content[i]);
bw.flush();
zos.closeEntry();
// this will close zos, too
bw.close();
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Is there a way that I can create a zipped file in one step (i.e. directly from the table data)?Yes. Instead of doing something like:
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are you using the example file or the same code as the above screen shot? So i think my problem is I have been trying to addd the folder to a zip file I created, whereas I think that if I just zip up the folder that has the txt file in it, I will then have a zip file which contains a folder which contains the txt file, is this correct?
I'm using the code in the screenshot (I whipped up the example quickly to see if I could get it to work, so it probably isn't the best or cleanest way to do it).
[The example code from NI should work, but is probably more than you need].
You zip files, but you tell the VI which folder within the zip file (i.e. relative to the zip file) you want them to go in.
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animals
->mammals
---->four_legs
-------->delicious
-------->thinks_you_are_delicious
---->two_legs
->birds
---->can_fly
---->cannot_fly
->fish
---->salt_water
---->fresh_water
You can have the same structure in the zip file.
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the file might be flathead.jpg with the path within the zip would be fish\salt_water\flathead.png
on the other hand a tiger photo
the file would be tiger.png but the path would be mammals\four_legs\thinks_you_are_delicious\tiger.png

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Thanks & regards
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I am having some odd bugs with OSX in creating and extracting ZIP files. I’m curious if anyone else has run across this or if anyone has any remedies to suggest.
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> and
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After investigation i am lead to believe this is because the method returns an array of file and directory names only but not their path and the unqualified names would have therefore be defaulted to the current working directory. Something i understand if this is the case.
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of File objects, instead of an array of Strings as shown in the snippet of the changed code below (the changed code highlighted)...but arrived at another error on the second section of highlighted code meaning i cant compile. I cant understand why this is so!
The error is: "cannot find symbol, Symbol: Contructor ZipEntry (Java.IO.file), location: class.java.util.zip.ZipEntry"
File f = new File("C:/Documents and Settings/Phil/My Documents/My Pictures/Work/");
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         **************String files[] = f.list();**************
         for (int i=0; i<g.length; i++)
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out.close();
Any help and thoughts most appreciated. Thank u in advance

I'll admit i took 1 look at that reply an thought "thats stupid that wont work"...
then a second look an though "actually, i should work i cant believe i didnt think of that"
Anyways i tried it and it did work
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