I am trying to zip my project and I get error 506 approx half way through the zip process. How can I zip the file??

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Error 506  what is it and how to I fix it so I can zip my project 
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EM

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Posted 6 months ago

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6 months ago
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Kelly Mullins, TechSmith Employee & Helper

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Hi EM,
I'm sorry you are having trouble.

Can you tell me how you are zipping up your project?
And, can you post an image of that error message here, please?
Is this error being thrown by Camtasia? Or Windows?
Thanks!
Kelly
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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kayakman, Champion

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I've seen this type of error when zipping if a file name in the package is too long, or contains a bad character
6 months ago
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Kelly Mullins, TechSmith Employee & Helper

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Hi,

As Kayakman has stated, there could be an issue in the naming of a file within the project. Or, there could be an issue of some kind with one of the files.

In another post, Kayakman has offered this tip:
"Using a copy of project file, delete one source file, then try zipping again; repeat until you [hopefully] ID the errant clip."
I know this might be a pain, but there is a file in the project that the Zip software doesn't like.

Kelly
5 months ago
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I was having the same issue. I was attempting to export as zip to a network drive. My local HD was low on space. I cleaned up my local HD and was able to successfully export the Camtasia files to the network drive. 
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