Nothing happens when I try to send files / folders to Compressed (zipped) folder

Question

For a while now, I've been unable to send files or folders to Zipped folder from windows explorer. The option is there, but when I click on it, nothing happens.

It seems others have had similar problems, but in their cases, the option has been greyed out, or another program has taken over as the default .zip program.

If I type "regsvr32 %windir%/system32/zipfldr.dll" into a run command, I get the following error:

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[Window Title]
RegSvr32

[Content]
The module "C:\WINDOWS/system32/zipfldr.dll" was loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was not found.

Make sure that "C:\WINDOWS/system32/zipfldr.dll" is a valid DLL or OCX file and then try again.

[OK]
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Very annoying, I'm not sure what is causing this.

Answer 1

I worked around the problem by using 7-Zip instead.

Answer 2

I know it is way too late but it might help someone. Does your folder have other sub-folders inside it? In my case, I tried zipping the folders which have sub-folders and it did not work (no response just like in your case). Try to zip the folders which have files only and no any sub folders inside.

Answer 3

Also way late, but maybe this will help others:

I had this problem, but could not find this mysterious folder, or deep directory, in fact, one of the folders that wouldn't zip had just one Word document in it.

What I did was to find a folder that would zip (or create one) and then copy the folder that wouldn't zip into it.

Worked like a charm!

Answer 4

I've copied the comments from this link mentioned earlier - http://david-homer.blogspot.com.br/2014/06/when-using-send-to-compressed-zipped.html

When using the "Send to compressed (zipped) folder" context menu item nothing happens

I've recently had a problem when using the "Send to compressed (zipped) folder" context menu item nothing happens on Windows 8.1.

Looking further into this I found that it worked most folders just not the one I wanted to ZIP.

After a while I realised that I had a Visual Studio project source code in this folder that had that annoying deep object folder problem and it seems that when you click "Send to compressed (zipped) folder" if there is an exceptionally deep directory structure in the folder you are zipping, the compression may fail but show no error.

I use the following tried and tested RoboCopy method for removing these broken directories with exceptionally deep paths that you can't delete with Windows Explorer.

@echo off
cls
mkdir emptyfolder
robocopy emptyfolder "path\to\obj" /MIR
rmdir emptyfolder
rmdir "path\to\obj"
pause

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I can see that this could be a potential problem, however at the moment this is working fine again as far as I can see - if I have the issue again I guess I'll have to check out the file structure, maybe that could be the issue.

Answer 5

I too ran into this problem while I was attempting to zip Android Studio Source code from 10 different projects. Initially having a overly deep structure seemed to be the case, and for me too Windows did not show an error initially.

So I did some more file digging and I found that this error usually occurs if you have an empty folder somewhere in your file structure of the file you are trying to zip. Each level down I was able to find the folder containing the mystery folder and each time the windows error would appear showing me the error saying that it could not zip an empty folder!

I went down the Rabbit hole and added a simple READ_ME.*txt file to each empty folder and viola!

I am using Windows 10 updated version on 10.2018. Hope this helps someone!

Answer 6

I ran into this issue as well. However my fix was much easier. My file names and paths were too long to be zipped. There was no warning.

I resolved it by copy-pasting the directory to another with a shorter path.

e.g. from /this/path/is/way/too/ooo/ooo/oo/long to /home/Desktop

Answer 7

I realise that I'm quite late to answering this question but I was having the same problem when trying to zip a folder and it seemed that nothing happened and no error was shown.

I right clicked and copied the folder, then pasted it to the same directory, during the copy a dialog told me there were several files in the folder that where too long to be copied, so I clicked skip. Then right clicked the copied folder and sent to zip and it worked.

Answer 8

I had the same problem, when clicked on send to compressed file nothing happened, then i found out that when you have a deep folder structure, windows fails to zip and doesn't show any errors. As it is explained here: http://david-homer.blogspot.com.br/2014/06/when-using-send-to-compressed-zipped.html

Answer 9

Check whether your file does not have the extension. Remember that Windows explorer does not allow creating folders beginning with dot, even though the underlying system can handle them.