Question
How to create zip of a directory in spaces?
- Posted on October 20, 2022
- LaravelDigitalOcean Spaces
Asked by Mohamamd Ashraf Ali
As I am trying to create a zip of a directory with multiple sub folders and I want to provide it for users to download. But i am unable to do that. Can anyone help me out how to zip a directory in spaces. I can easily do it from my local storage.
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Hi @mohamamdashraf-ali,
There have been similar questions asked in the community as well, here is one that I found a few days back:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-zip-files-in-the-spaces-bucket
This could be useful as well as the link provided you earlier by Rexford Nkansah.
Hi Mohamamd,
From my understanding, that’s not a trivial task to do, since on spaces, the files or objects with paths, and not necessarily directories.
You can find more info on the potential workarounds in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16368119/zip-an-entire-directory-on-s3
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