It is going to use / as a working directory - it will attempt to create temp file in / and will put the resulting archive there as well.

P7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,4 CPUs Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU 2.70GHz (806E9),ASM,AES-NI)Īlso, in case you're omitting the archive name from the command line, it's going to use directory of your source. If you don't have access to create files in / but you do have access to update the archive that's already there (a very valid scenario) you're going to get exactly what you get: /tmp $ 7z a /folder.7z /folderħ-Zip 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : Will ignore the fact you're in /tmp and will first create a tmp file in / and then put the result in the / no matter what you current folder is. It uses the one that the resulting archive is going to be created at. You can either 1) run 7-Zip as administrator or 2) set the working directory in 7-Zip File Manager (Tools->Options->Folders) to an unprotected one (for example, clear the checkbox there) and use the 'Add to archive…' menu and create the archive in an unprotected directory.ħz does not use current directory (the one you get by pwd) as a working directory. It seems to be a security issue about C:// directory, since it seems that I can compress other files and folders just fine. Step2: Browse for the corrupted ZIP file and right.

Step1: Download WinRAR on your PC and launch it. I can however open the file manager in the 7-zip folder ('7zFM'), run as administrator and compress the said file to. 7 hours ago Method 1: Repair Corrupt Zip Folder with WinRAR. My first problem is when I try to compress a folder in C:// with the context menus (7-zip > Add to 'xyz.zip'), I get the error : 'Access is denied. I tried to search for a while on the net, but couldn't find any help, so here I am.

I'd like to know how I can make this work on UNIX. I found the comment below but it seems to be relevant only to Windows. I've set all the permissions to any folders that I thought it might be using to 777, but the problem persists. It doesn't tell me where it's having permissions with that tmp file, so I don't know where to look. Compressed (Zipped) Folder Access Denied error occurs if the user TEMP variable isnt properly set, or the user has no write access to their TEMP. P7zip Version 9.20 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,8 CPUs) The error is:ħ-Zip 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov i tried running as admin, changing compatibility mode to windows 8 and XP, opening a torrent file to make it open, and uninstalling/reinstalling, but it still shows the same error. But when run through Autosys, it always fails when trying to archive a second file to an existing archive. last night utorrent was working, but for some reason today when i try to open utorrent a little window opens saying its extracting, and then a window with 7-Zip at the top says 'Access is denied'.

I have an archiving script that uses 7z -tzip -aoa and it runs on unix and works fine.

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