If the files your end users are sending you have path names associated with them, then when you unzip them programmatically the files will go to that path unless you use the -j parameter. You can check whether there are path names associated with the zipped files by opening the zip file in WinZip and looking under the 'path' column. Could this be the problem?

>I am passing a pathname:
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>c:\temp\z442.zip
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>I want to unzip that file and extract to p: directory\path. A zip file can have up to 6 different dbfs within it.
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>Our end users zip up different databases and email them to us. I am developing an application that will check the email and temporarily download those files to c:\temp directory on the server (using Nigel Coats msmapi class BTW). That part works like a charm but when I attemp to unzip the file that I'm passing (c:\temp\z442.zip), it doesn't work. the target path does exist...