Hello Jim,

I use this tool, and find it outputs a warning, but does not stop processing. If you want to hide this from the customer, just PIPE the output to a text file, that way you can parse it and check the results programatically.

HTH Bob

>Is it possible to configure WinZip so that it does not complain about files that are open when it is trying to zip them?
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>I want to zip a directory which is, essentially, read-only -- once created, it is not modified. There are probably users accessing the files almost 24 hours a day. I'd like to use Zip Automation Manager to zip this directory (so that it can be transferred over to laptop), but get a message which looks like this (for every file):
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>Warning: The following file is open by another program. If that program
>Warning: writes to the file while WinZip is zipping the file, the zipped
>Warning: file may be corrupt: ..\..\..\Data\Kong\KOIN\deleted customer parts.dbf
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>Is it possible to change some configuration setting so that Winzip will not complain about this problem?
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>Thanks,