zipfile replace capital letters to small

[Neko Novi]

hi all, i am trying to zip certain folders that contain csv files, for example File1.csv File2.csv etc, and they are all in the folder called Folder_of_csvs. When i run

zipfile Folder_of_csvs, saving(Folder_of_csvs.zip, replace)

all files in the zipped folder are renamed into file1.csv file2.csv etc

How to stop this? thank you
Neko

[William Lisowski]

This does not happen in my setup, which is

Stata/SE 15.1 for Mac (64-bit Intel)
Revision 11 Jan 2018

The capitalization is preserved, both within the ZIP archive and when the file is extracted from the ZIP archive.

[Clyde Schechter]

Nor does it happen in my setup which is:

Stata/MP 15.1 for Windows (64-bit x86-64)
Revision 11 Jan 2018

Running Windows 7.

If Neko Novi is running on Windows, filenames are not case sensitive. On Mac systems, however, this could indeed cause difficulties.

[Neko Novi]

Thanks for answers, im using Stata SE 14.2 on Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit. Im not sure i understood the second answer, i need these zips for some other programs that are case sensitive so i really need to preserve original file names... Is there any solution for this?

Thanks a lot!

[Clyde Schechter]

I think that point of the responses in #2 and #3 is that this seems to be somehow idiosyncratic to your installation. Perhaps you should contact Stata Technical Support about it.

[William Lisowski]

You don't tell us how you determine that the files within the ZIP archive are renamed. Perhaps the archive is created with upper/lower case file names, but the software you are using to read the ZIP archive is causing the problem.

In my case I used Stata zipfile and unzipfile to create the archive and to unpack it.

Have you tried using a full-featured ZIP archive utility to open (but not unpack) your archive to see what it tells you the compressed files are named within the archive? When my day job was on Windows, PKZIP was the utility of choice.