Title: Creating compressed file …failed.
Last modified: January 28, 2018

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# Creating compressed file …failed.

 *  [raggamuffin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raggamuffin/)
 * (@raggamuffin)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-compressed-file-failed-2/)
 * please I am all new to this world but I really need to get a copy of all the 
   pictures off my web site onto my local computer
    please need help
 * Media Library contains 1059 files in excess of 244.57 MiB
 * Note : Creating a huge zip file. This page may timeout before zipping is complete.
 * Creating compressed file …failed.
 * Sorry Sonny! Something went wrong. Reason : zip open failed. Exiting
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by [raggamuffin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raggamuffin/).

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 * Last reply from: [raggamuffin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raggamuffin/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-compressed-file-failed-2/)
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