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 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 2

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.