latest archive includes folders and files with the same name, which prevents extraction

[darronschall]

Originally filed by chriswestin42 on 2008-11-19T15:43:30

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. on vista
2. download the .zip
3. try to extract all

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect to extract the files. Instead, get a dialog saying "There is
already a file with the same name as the folder you specified. Specify a
different name." If you look inside the zip file, you can see that for
every folder, there's a file with the same name. Result: can't extract.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
vista
This is the latest (Nov 15 2008) .zip file.

Please provide any additional information below.
Attached screen shot of explorer shows the duplicates in top level
directory; other directories in the hierarchy are all the same.

[darronschall]

Updated by chriswestin42 on 2008-11-19T16:05:07

Note that above I was trying to use Vista's native explorer to extract. I tried to
use gunzip (from a cygwin shell) and got a similar error. I downloaded winzip and I
can extract fine with that, so I'm guessing the latest version of winzip is doing
something to funny knock out their free competition.

[darronschall]

Updated by chriswestin42 on 2008-11-19T16:09:51

One more note: if I wget the .zip on a unix box, and use standard unix unzip (not
gnu gunzip), I can extract. So its Vista Explorer and gunzip that have problems,
but winzip 12 and unix unzip work fine.

[darronschall]

Updated by mikechambers on 2008-11-25T22:47:48

What folders are replicated?

Is vista maintaining directories when it uncompresses it?

Original ticket set owner to mikechambers
Original ticket set status to NeedMoreInfo (we converted to open)