Re: Winzip 9 -- prevent restoration of original directory structure?

["Bob Crothers" <bob.crothers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Before you do the zip, do an XCOPY with /S to a different directory.  /S
tells it to copy sub directories except empty ones.  If you DID want the
empty ones, /E will do that.

Bob

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Folks:
>
> I'm trying to use winzip 9 to unzip some files ... the original directory
> that I zipped up contained a number of empty sub-directories.
>
> The zip contains only 11 files in various subdirectories ... but when I
> unzip it, the entire directory structure is being restored (most of these
> subdirectories are empty).
>
> Anyone know how I can stop winzip from storing the full directory
> structure?
>
> david
>
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