Windows ZIP file generation - path separator issue

[rusq]

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[rusq]

Hey @rusq,

yeah the exported zip did not contain the folders for the channels, just the json files with channel\ in the filename. Solution was to not use the inbuilt export to zip function but to export it to a folder and then zip it afterwards. I tried it again recently and miraculously it worked as it should. So probably I did something dumb in the beginning.

My first dump:

vmware/
vmware/2019-12-05.json
vmware/2020-05-19.json
vmware/2020-10-09.json
vmware/2022-06-28.json
vmware/2022-08-09.json

the one i did recently:

vmware\2020-05-19.json
vmware\2020-10-09.json
vmware\2022-06-28.json
vmware\2022-08-09.json
vmware\2019-12-05.json

David

[rusq]

Problem with generating ZIP files on windows - possibly path separator issue.

[rusq]

Workaround:

• Unzip the export file to a temporary folder
• Zip it again with Windows built in compressor, or any other archiver supporting ZIP files.