# Create Archive Exclude Directories Fails

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/create-archive-exclude-directories-fails/3223
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [March 18, 2010, 9:24am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/create-archive-exclude-directories-fails/3223 "2010-03-18T09:24:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![bfraser](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bfraser](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/bfraser)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2010, 9:24am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/create-archive-exclude-directories-fails/3223/1 "2010-03-18T09:24:47Z")

</div>

Hi,

I've been testing the trial version for use at my company and I've come across what appear to be a variety of bugs. I can reproduce them all 100% of the time. I will post them each seperately to keep things organized.

Bug 2:

1. Set up a Create Archive Action using 7zip.  
2. In the Include tab, Add-\>File-\>\*.\*  
3. In the Exclude tab, Add-\>Folder-\>Select a Folder.  
4. Result after running: the folder is not excluded&nbsp;from the resulting zip.  
5. If I manually specify the folder to be relative it will work, but the explicit path produced by using the Add-\>Folder operation will not.

Thanks,  
Blair

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/paulsamways)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/create-archive-exclude-directories-fails/3223/2 "2010-03-22T01:05:26Z")

</div>

Hi Blair,   
  
 I wasn’t able to reproduce the bug here when specify the exclude path as an absolute path. Would you be able to send in an example project that we can use to reproduce it here?   
  
 You can send it to support [at] [finalbuilder.com](http://finalbuilder.com).   
  
 Regards,   
 Paul

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![bfraser](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bfraser](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/bfraser)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/create-archive-exclude-directories-fails/3223/3 "2010-03-25T02:06:00Z")

</div>

I’ve tried to recreate it using a test project but it works. I believe the issue may have been with my version of 7Zip which I recently updated. I will send a project if it happens again. Ignore me for now and thanks for looking at it regardless