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I have this directory structure:

EclipseWorkspace
---.metadata
------.mylyn
------.plugins

When using a "Send to -> Compressed (zipped) folder" function on a EclipseWorkspace directory, the resulting archive doesn't include the .plugins directory! No error message is given, the operation completes as if it was successful - the zip archive is just incomplete.

Does anyone have any ideas how to prevent it (without changing the directory structure)?

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Since Windows Explorer does not allow the creation of folders whose names begin with a period (although the underlying file system obviously can handle them just fine), guess Compressed Folders doesn't deal with them too well either. As per my quick tests it seems to add only the first folder that begins with a period, skipping the rest.

Since the "feature" has such major deficiencies (it doesn't even support Unicode in this day and age), I highly recommend you use a proper archiver instead.

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