Avni Nanda July 14, 2016 12:39 ANSWERED Hi , I am trying to zip files at a folder location . I am unable to open application > "Windows explorer " Also record sequence is not feasible as these files are created during the process workflow . You help is much appreciated . Thankyou. Regards A…

@igul Can you recreate this in Uipath. string[] files= Directory.GetFiles(filePath); // Create and open a new ZIP file var zip = ZipFile.Open(fileName, ZipArchiveMode.Create); foreach (var file in files) { …

Interesting… 'ZipArchive' does not have a public instance method named 'CreateEntryFromFile' matching the parameter types, generic type arguments, and generic type constraints supplied to InvokeMethod 'Invoke method' [image] Interestingly, in the same exact workflow I have a working custom activ…

For some reason I don’t see ZipArchive (Compression.FileSystem) class, I’m using 2016.2 , Windows 2012 R2 [image] [image]

You need to manually add the reference to System.IO.Compression.FileSystem in the xaml and restart (see post 5 here). I’m wondering if it’s not loading it correctly though. Sometimes I’d wish we could just add references to .dll’s without jumping through endless hoops :frowning:

Good tip. Works for me without Invokemethod as the Retrun type is “ZipArchiveEntry”, but unable to open the Zip file.Am i missing something? [image] Compress.xaml (9.2 KB)

while running this code getting unauthorized access exception

Hi @sowmya , That error is maybe because your zipPath is a folder. You need to assign it the new zip file to be created(ex: “C:\Users\admin\Documents\test.zip”). Then, assign to the filepath variable the folder path to get the files to be compressed(ex: “C:\Users\admin\Documents”). It should work…

I want to attach the zip file and send smtp mail how to do this one?

Hello @sowmya , You could try to use Send SMTP Mail Message activity: https://www.uipath.com/activities-guide/send-smtp-mail-message [SMTP] Regards, Susana

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vvaidya (Vinay Vaidya) June 1, 2017, 4:15pm 17

Please ignore, i forgot to dispose the ZipArchive. Works now.

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