Folder Compression Fail...

[Sterillium]

I have a folder, which has a further 12 folders within it, each of which has up to half a dozen documents.

I want to email all of it to a colleague, but, when I compress the initial folder, all of the documents mix together rather than staying within their folder groupings... is there a way to keep them as they are and still email them over?

I am utterly rubbish at this stuff, apologies.

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Which OS?

If on Windows try 7Zip its free and supports a variety of compression formats - including ".zip"

On MacOS/Linux I use the terminal and "tar" to create a tar.gz file (I have never used "compress" from within finder)

[Sterillium]

Windows 10.

When I zip it, I'm left with one file that has all the documents mixed together in it... what I really want is them to remain in their separate folders so that the recipient of the email can see what's what.

[randlemarcus]

When the recipient extracts the files, does the folder structure magically re-appear? Ignoring the folder inside the ZIP seems sensible, as its not the primary purpose of the Zip program.

[FunkyNige]

Are you just right clicking on the the folder and pressing 'Send to --> Compressed (zipped) folder'? I know there were options in WinZip about maintaining folder structure but that's going back several years, the Windows 10 zip I thought always preserved the structure (and does when I just tried it).

[Sterillium]

Ah, I have just discovered all the folders return when extracted... I was looking at them whilst they were still zipped and one big jumbled mess!