Windows Zip: Cannot Create Output File

Hey All-

I just spent all morning searching the net to try to solve what no one
seems to be able to:

Problem: After highlighting files in a folder, then right clicking and
choosing "Send to Compressed Folder (zip)," it starts to create the Zip
file and then crashes--displaying the dreaded "Cannot Create Output
File."

Now I have spent hours reading all kinds of security and password
answers that have NOTHING to do with this issue. Please, if you can
not provide an exact solution to this issue, please do not theorize
here. Thanks.

Someone must have the answer to this. So many people are having this
problem!

Pirate727

You really cannot expect anything other than a theoretical answer, since you
have the problem and most others do not.
Besides reading security and password related information, what, if
anything, have you tried, in order to solve the problem?
What didn't work is as or more useful in this case.

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Hey All-

I just spent all morning searching the net to try to solve what no one
seems to be able to:

Problem: After highlighting files in a folder, then right clicking and
choosing "Send to Compressed Folder (zip)," it starts to create the Zip
file and then crashes--displaying the dreaded "Cannot Create Output
File."

Now I have spent hours reading all kinds of security and password
answers that have NOTHING to do with this issue. Please, if you can
not provide an exact solution to this issue, please do not theorize
here. Thanks.

Someone must have the answer to this. So many people are having this
problem!

Pirate727

Hi Chuck-

I appreciate your reply, however, I have found several threads in
several boards where people are having this exact same problem. No one
seems to have the right answer.

What I have done that works is to move the files to another computer
and zip them there.

I thought it might be my directory that was corrupted, or a file, but
neither theory held. The same condition happened no matter what
directory on the computer I tried to zip files from. -- Either the
ones I was working on or the ones that were already there.

A friend told me that the zip element itself may be corrupted, or a
Windows kernel file, requiring a reinstall (which may not replace the
files) or a re-format.

Any ideas?

I could suggest ZipCentral as a better alternative to the inbuilt function.
I install this on most computers I roll out, and the users seem to prefer it.

Freeware though, so 'fraid no chance to exercise your cutlass. g