Hello All, I really never understood the problems mentioned with empty directories but in a posting of Alistair George- subject New format, I found this sentence : b) the zipdll will not handle empty directories eg c:\jobs has no files, but has several directories within containing files. If c:\jobs\*.* is sent to the DLL it wont zip the contents. Can I conclude that this is a good description of the problem? I always understood 'empty' as meaning contains nothing, but since I am not English speaking I probably misunderstood With this new knowledge I can investigate further Roger Aelbrecht http://web.wanadoo.be/driehoeksw