DotNetZip - Adding Folders

Question

i imagine this is very simple but i can find nothing in the DotNetZip examples or documentation to help me. I need to add a folder to a zip that contains both folders and files, i need to maintain the folders rather than only zipping their files but using the following it always strips away the folders:

 using (ZipFile zip = new ZipFile())
                {
                    string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(@TempLoc);
                    string[] folders = Directory.GetDirectories(@TempLoc);
                    zip.AddFiles(files, "Traces");

                    foreach (string fol in folders)
                    {
                        zip.AddDirectory(fol, "Traces");
                    }

                    zip.Comment = "These traces were gathered " + System.DateTime.Now.ToString("G");
                    zip.Save(arcTraceLoc + userName.Text + "-Logs.zip");
                }

I'm using the loop as i could not find a function for folders similar to 'AddFiles' in DotNetZip.

Thanks.

Does this work? `zip.AddDirectory(fol, Path.Combine("Traces", fol));` — Tim S., Oct 21 '13 at 17:27
That 'worked' but put the full path to the folder under the same directory as 'Traces', i need the exact data present in 'fol' to go into the specified 'Traces' directory within the zip. — Dan Hall, Oct 21 '13 at 18:03
`zip.AddDirectory(fol, Path.Combine("Traces", new DirectoryInfo(fol).Name));` — Tim S., Oct 21 '13 at 18:33

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 21 '13 at 18:40

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I think this is what you need:

  bool recurseDirectories = true;
  using (ZipFile zip = new ZipFile())
  {
    zip.AddSelectedFiles("*", @TempLoc, string.Empty, recurseDirectories);
    zip.Save(ZipFileToCreate);
  }

edited Oct 21 '13 at 18:40

TcKs

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answered Oct 21 '13 at 17:32

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Thanks Tim but unfortunately this throws an exception: "System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs" Not the most helpful error...i guess that we're missing some parameters maybe? – Dan Hall Oct 21 '13 at 18:21
That's not helpful at all...are you sure there's not more to the exception that you're just not seeing? – Tim S. Oct 21 '13 at 18:33
Fiddled a little more and found you have to add a 'string.empty' to the 3rd Arg on AddSelectedFiles(), works a treat now :) Cheers. – Dan Hall Oct 21 '13 at 18:33
In any typical case, `""` and `string.Empty` are the same. Which you use is mainly a stylistic choice, and I find it highly unlikely that this is what really fixed your problem. I edited my answer to include `""` and you posted about `string.Empty` fixing it at about the same time I think, so maybe you just missed it. – Tim S. Oct 21 '13 at 18:57

DotNetZip - Adding Folders

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