easy zip throws error when folder size is bigger than ~20mb

[soliton4]

hi
i tried including easy zip in my node-mirror project.
https://npmjs.org/package/node-mirror

the main reason for me was because it seems to be the only zip implementation that handles folder reads async.
however when i try zipping a folder that is about 40mb big, easyzip wont finish and i get a error on command line

events.js:72
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event

i am pretty sure you can reproduce it. just try to zip a folder that has lots of files and is about 40 mb in size.
thx
sol

[dieseltravis]

I'm having a similar issue:

events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: OK, open 'D:\somedir\etc\filename.txt'

The code that I'm using is:

async.series([
  function (as1_callback) {
    fse.exists('./somedir', function (exists) {
      if (exists) {
        var ez = new EasyZip(),
          zipFileName = 'backup-' + moment(env.now).format('YYYYMMDD-HHmm') + '.zip';
        console.log('zipping up existing files into ' + zipFileName + '...');
        try {
debugger; // as far as I can tell this next line is where the error happens...
          ez.zipFolder('./somedir', function () {
            try {
              console.log('writing zip to disk...');
              ez.writeToFile('./otherdir/' + zipFileName));
              as1_callback(null);
            } catch (err2) {
              handleError(err2, 'EasyZip nested task');
              as1_callback(null);
            }
          });
        } catch (err) {
          handleError(err, 'EasyZip task');
          as1_callback(null);
        }
      } else {
        console.log('skipping zip...');
        as1_callback(null);
      }
    });
  }, // etc...

This code was working fine before when the directory to sip only had a few files in it. Now the folder is up to 5.29 MB and contains 4,435 files and 3,576 folders.

[soliton4]

im using https://www.npmjs.org/package/adm-zip now.
easy zip seems to be unmaintained ;(

[dieseltravis]

Cool, I was just looking into alternatives, thanks for the tip! 👍

[jrnewell]

In case anyone is interested, I made a fork of this repo since this one is abandoned. https://github.com/jrnewell/easy-zip2