Compressing a file to a .ZIP in PowerShell v2.0

Question

I want to zip a file using PowerShell v2.0 as I am engineering this code for a legacy server.

On my local machine running PowerShell v5.0 it works fine, but does not on PS v2.

Any idea how to ZIP a file using PS v2?

Compress-Archive -Path $root_folder\temp-file.csv -Update -DestinationPath $root_folder\temp-file.zip

Again, this is for PowerShell v2.0!

Possible related and duplicates: stackoverflow.com/questions/1153126/…, stackoverflow.com/questions/40265627/…, stackoverflow.com/questions/11021879/…, and a large number of others — Jeff Zeitlin
– Jeff Zeitlin, Commented Jan 30, 2019 at 14:51
Possible duplicate of Creating a zipped/compressed folder in Windows using Powershell or the command line — Jeff Zeitlin
– Jeff Zeitlin, Commented Jan 30, 2019 at 14:51
Possible duplicate of How to create a zip archive with PowerShell? — marsze
– marsze, Commented Jan 30, 2019 at 14:55

TobyU · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-30 14:48:21Z

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Some time ago I have written a function to create a .zip file without the use of Compress-Archive

function createZipFile($outputFileName, $sourceDirectory){
    Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
    $compressionLevel = [System.IO.Compression.CompressionLevel]::Optimal
    [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory($sourceDirectory, $outputFileName, $compressionLevel, $false)
}

answered Jan 30, 2019 at 14:48

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Kerbol Over a year ago

Didn't seem to work for me. I got the error "Add-Type : Cannot add type. The assembly 'System.IO.Compression.FileSystem' cou ld not be found."

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