Zip & Unzip

Zip is an archive file format. A Zip file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed.

Zip and unzip functionality is available on-demand through the Web Interface (Web UI), the Command Line Interface (CLI) App, and through SDK & APIs.

Unzipping a Zip Archive

When unzipping, you can choose to extract one file from the archive or the entire contents. The default unzip behavior is to extract the full archive contents into the destination folder.

You can also browse the contents of a .zip archive before extracting it. You can see each file name and its uncompressed size.

Permissions Required

Zip and Unzip require read permission on the folder that contains the source content and write permission on the destination folder.

For zip, the source content is the set of files and folders you selected. For unzip, the source content is the .zip file.

Unzip File Limit

Unzip supports archives containing up to 10,000 files. Archives with more than 10,000 files cannot be unzipped. If this limit affects your workflow, contact Files.com support. We'd like to know if a higher limit would be useful.

Invalid Folder Names

When the archive contains a file or folder with an invalid name, Unzip won't extract the invalid items and continues extracting the rest of the archive.

Background Execution

Zip and Unzip run as asynchronous (backgrounded) operations.

During an unzip operation, each file is placed into the destination folder immediately after it is extracted, rather than all files being added at once. Files are added to the destination folder atomically.

When you zip files, the new .zip archive does not appear in the destination until the process is completed.

In the web interface, Files.com shows in-progress work under Actions In Progress.

Automatically Unzip Files

Site Administrators, Workspace Administrators, and Folder Admins can configure a folder to Automatically Unzip Files as they arrive, placing the extracted contents into a subfolder.