# Having trouble with creating 7zip archive with recursive

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/having-trouble-with-creating-7zip-archive-with-recursive/1343
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**Created:** [October 14, 2009, 9:28am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/having-trouble-with-creating-7zip-archive-with-recursive/1343 "2009-10-14T09:28:52Z")
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### Author: ![pkellner](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/pkellner/32/94_2.png) [@pkellner](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/pkellner)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2009, 9:28am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/having-trouble-with-creating-7zip-archive-with-recursive/1343/1 "2009-10-14T09:28:52Z")

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I'm having trouble figuring out how with the 7zip action to create a recursive archive of files.&nbsp; I can put \*.\* and it just gets my root.&nbsp; I want to include a fb variable for the root and have it recurse.&nbsp; If I leave the include files empty, I get no files found message

BTW, you guys are great!!!

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### Author: ![Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/vincent/32/938_2.png) [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2009, 10:44am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/having-trouble-with-creating-7zip-archive-with-recursive/1343/2 "2009-10-14T10:44:18Z")

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Hi Peter   
  
 You need to turn on the Recurse option. If you are using wildcards then you need to set it to “On for WildCards”