Problem

When exporting a number of scheduling objects such as workflows using the tar.gz format it occurs that the files are not displayed correctly and are not extracted correctly when using the 7-Zip tool.

This happens if exported scheduling objects use a path >100 characters. The path includes both folders and object names.

Analysis

At the time of writing the 7-Zip tool is not capable of displaying long paths to file names correctly when using .tar.gz archives. Instead, the path is truncated to 100 characters.

This similarly applies to extraction of files from .tar.gz archives using 7-Zip.

Resolution

To prevent such problems use the tar program available from Unix or tar.exe provided for the Windows operating system (Windows 10, 11). The programs are capable of handling long file names from .tar.gz archives.