File extractor brings all files instead of just zip file

Question

I've created a file extractor, now it does work, however it also moves all the files from the startDir to the destDir along with, the zip file. How can I get this program to only move the zip file, instead of all the files?

Source:

using System;
using System.IO.Compression;

namespace ArchiveCreator
{
    class Program
    {
        //When program is run successfully this will be the output
        public string Success(string input)
        {
            Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.White;
            Console.WriteLine(input);
            return input;
        }

        //When program encounters an error this will be the output
        public string Warn(string input)
        {
            Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
            Console.WriteLine(input);
            return input;
        }

        //When program has information to show, this will be the output
        public string Say(string input)
        {
            Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.DarkCyan;
            Console.WriteLine(input);
            return input;
        }

        //Main method
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //These variables are used to create a
            //random string that will be used as the
            //zip files name
            var chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
            var stringChars = new char[8];
            var random = new Random();

            //Info is used as provide the type of
            //information that will be displayed
            //by the program
            Program info = new Program();

            //Create the zip file name
            for (int i = 0; i < stringChars.Length; i++)
            {
                stringChars[i] = chars[random.Next(chars.Length)];
            }
            string finalString = new String(stringChars);

            info.Say("Starting file extraction..");

            string startDir = @"c:/users/thomas_j_perkins/test_folder";
            string destDir = @"c:/users/thomas_j_perkins/archive/";
            string zipName = $"c:/users/thomas_j_perkins/archive/{finalString}.zip";

            try
            {
                ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory(startDir, zipName);
                ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(zipName, destDir);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                info.Warn($"Error: {e}");
            }
            info.Success($"Extracted files successfully to: {destDir}");
            info.Say("Press enter to exit..");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Image of directory after program is run:

Answer 1

Your code is creating a zip file in the destination directory when you call

ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory(startDir, zipName);

The zipname path is in the destDir. Did you mean to put it in the startDir?

string startDir = @"c:/users/thomas_j_perkins/test_folder";

string destDir = @"c:/users/thomas_j_perkins/archive/";

string zipName = $"c:/users/thomas_j_perkins/archive/{finalString}.zip";