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Hi, In all versions Create backup in a ZIP command cannot create a ZIP archive if a project contains two or more files (images/video/audio) with the same name in different folders. For example, Picture.jpg in Folder1 and in Folder2 which are used in a project. Note. Multiple files with the same name may be duplicates or unique files (for example, unique Background.jpg files in different folders). In future version 12.0 we automatically rename the second file to Picture_2.jpg (Picture_3.jpg, etc) to resolve this situation and allow to create a ZIP archive for any project. Project file in a ZIP also is being modified to use a new file name(s). Of course, the original project and its files remain not modified. What you think?

I also added a smart compression for a backup in ZIP. Almost all project files are stored in a compressed formats (JPEG, MP3, MP4, etc). No need to compress these files using ZIP algorithms. ZIP format allows to set individual compression level for each file. After this optimization, ZIP archives in PTE are being created in 3-5 times faster than earlier. The resulting file size is almost same, a difference is less than 1%.

Hi, Thanks for your responses! We'll do the same for project templates with duplicates (same file names). Jill, thanks for reminding. Jill, probably you mean a special new command to check for duplicates a current project? Probably it would better to think about more complex tool which checks a project for duplicates and used fonts. Maybe something else. Bert, I think it's another issue. Any version of PTE cannot create ZIP archives larger than 2 GB. We plan to vastly rework ZIP packing code to be able create archives larger than 2 GB. I hope that it will be added for V11 in February-March. Not for V10, sorry. Original files can be located in a complex hierarchy of folders and different drives. It would be hard (or impossible) to repeat it in a ZIP archive.