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Today I was trying to create a zip file with few of my documents. While doing the same, instead of creating Zip file, system I created a file with some weird name with 2 upper case letters,2 lower case letters and 5 numbers with the following error message:
"Cannot create output file."
I tried it more than 10 times but the result remained same. I don’t know what to do. This is Windows XP with SP2. Please help.
Hello Sauvan, just try out the following steps and let me know what happens:
- Double-click the parent compressed folder.
- Click the compressed folder into which you want to copy the file or from which you want to delete the file.
- On the File menu, click Extract, and then click Browse.
- In the Browse For Folder window, click Desktop, and then click OK.
- Click Next, and then click Finish.
- Close the parent compressed folder.
- Copy the file to or delete the file from the extracted folder on the desktop, and then close the extracted folder.
- Drag the extracted folder to the parent compressed folder.
- When you are prompted to replace the existing file, click Yes.
I figured out how to do it. You have to rename the file you mentioned with the extension .zip, and then you can extract it as a regular compressed folder with a password.