PHPExcel exception: "Could not close zip file ... " - phpexcel

I am using XAMPP a Mac for local development, but I used this code at work (using Windows and an otherwise identical development environment) and it worked fine:
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$sheet = $objPHPExcel->createSheet();
$sheet->fromArray($a);
...
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
//$objWriter->save('P:/Projects/Mess3/Sadness.xlsx');
$objWriter->save('/Users/tjb1982/Desktop/sadness.xlsx');
The commented-out text works with my Windows system at work. I tried to output the file to 'php://output' and got a garbled mess (is that what is to be expected?).
I can't seem to find anyone who is experiencing this problem outside of those who had permissions problems or had the file open when they were trying to save it. Please help!


I was getting the same error "Cannot close zip file.." and realized it didn't have permissions to write to that directory. Check your write permissions. (IIS8 + php + mysql + oracle)
Once i allowed write permissions problem was immediately fixed.


Generally this means one of 3 things:
The directory where you're trying to save the file doesn't exist
The directory/file has permissions that preclude you from writing to it
The file is already open in some other application, or has a lock on it


I had the same problem, just added the path in the save method and it worked
$objWriter->save(dirname(FILE)."dir1"."/".$file.".xlsx");


I found that this problem is caused when you execute the code once and then open the outputted excel file with Office excel. Try closing the file in excel and then try! Hope this helps!


I had the same problem, actually you have to modify the basic rights of reading and writing given to your PHPWord directory:
chmod -R 777 PHPWord/

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Isuggest that to check the work directory, and it is better to read any file on the same work space you choose
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I hope my Answer help you.

Delete files from SFTP using R Studio

I need to delete files from an FTP site once I have processed them in R (parsing content). However, nothing I try seems to work.
this is what ive trying, and variations of.
library(RCurl)
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To delete over sftp, use rm instead of DELE - which looks like an ftp rather than an sftp command.
Then make sure you have the full file path. This works for me:
curlPerform(
url="sftp://me#host.example.com/",
.opts=list(
ssh.public.keyfile=pub,
ssh.private.keyfile=pri),
verbose=TRUE,
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Note I've put my credentials in some key files so I don't put the password in plain text in the code.
I'm not convinced this is the best way to do it, since I can't stop it printing the contents of the URL... There's might be an option...

PSFTP open for write: failure

I am uploading a file from a collection of different servers to one data server. I am using psftp and one out of 20+ servers is producing a permissions problem.
Remote working directory is /
psftp> cd Remote_Directory\
Remote directory is now /Remote_Directory/
psftp> put C:\folders\containing\file\FILE.zip
/Remote_Directory/: open for write: failure
psftp> quit
It appears like a permissions issue on the remote directory, however, why am I only getting the issue on one server? The batch is identical on all of the 20+ servers.

PUT command expects a file name at the end of the destination location.
Please try the following code
put C:\folders\containing\file\FILE.zip /Remote_Directory/FILE.zip

The path in the error message is an exact path to the remote file the psftp tried to create. See outfname in below code snippet:
req = fxp_open_send(outfname,
SSH_FXF_WRITE | SSH_FXF_CREAT | SSH_FXF_TRUNC,
&attrs);
...
printf("%s: open for write: %s\n", outfname, fxp_error());
As the path is obviously not correct (lacks file name), it seems that psftp got confused somehow. I believe it's likely due to wrong (back)slash you have used in the cd command.
Try cd Remote_Directory/.

In my case, it's a permission issue on the remote server, i.e. the account you are using to log on doesn't have the write permission for the remote folder.

Error in gzfile(file, "wb"): cannot open the connection or compressed file

I'm trying to run two things: first, I'm creating a PDF with 4x5, ending with dev.off(), and then trying to create a new graph. However, after starting the second plot, I get:
Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In gzfile(file, "wb") :
cannot open compressed file '/var/folders/n9/pw_dz8d13j3gb2xgqb6rfnz00000gn/T/RtmpTfm1Ur/rs-graphics-822a1c83-b3fd-46c3-8028-4e0778f91d0c/4db4b438-ac35-403b-b791-e781baba152c.snapshot', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
Graphics error: Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection
What is this error? The working directory is one I have read/write access to, and my hard drive isn't full.
Also, I'm using RStudio.

This is a bit late but for anyone coming here for help, I got this error when I was trying to write a file from RStudio and my destination file path was very long. I realized this could be a problem because when I wrote the file to another location with a shorter name and tried to copy it into my original destination, Windows gave me an error saying "File path too long". You might need to save the original file into another location with a shorter absolute path.

Maybe you should look here. At the end it says
Note:
The most common reason for failure is lack of write permission in the current directory. For save.image and for saving at the end of a session this will shown by messages like
Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
In gzfile(file, "wb") :
cannot open compressed file '.RDataTmp',
probable reason 'Permission denied'
So rapidly, if you try getwd(), look at where is your working directory set. If you're trying to save your document in a place where it's not in your current working directory, it will throw you this error.
At the end of your error message, it says probable reason 'No such file or directory'
Graphics error: Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection
My diagnosis would be simply that it's trying to save your item in the wrong place and RStudio is not able to find the right place.

This burned me so hopefully saves someone else some toil. The issue was that the classifiers loaded just fine on OS X but on the Linux deployment system they would fail with the error listed in the question. The issue was the the files on the disk had extension abc.RData but the code modelAbc <- readRDS(file="abc.Rdata"). The difference in the upper and lowercase D in the .RData vs .Rdata extension would fail on Linux. It was not very noticeable but check your extensions for case.

You may have no permission to save file in the directory.
On RStudio, get your working directory by getwd().
Then, go to the directory in linux and observe its owner by ls -l.
Now you can change the owner of the directory by chown -R username directoryname.
But you must be root.

Problem resolved by specifying full file path:
saveRDS(df,'C:\\users\\matt\\desktop\\code\\df.Rdata')

I faced this issue lately. Try turning off your anti-virus and build the package, it might help. It worked for me. Usually anti-virus blocks the permissions and you could avoid it by disabling for sometime just before building a package.

I was trying to save an RDS file to my local Dropbox folder so it syncs with my Dropbox.
I figured out I got the same error because I was trying to create a new folder and looks like saveRDS cannot create a new folder, but it can add files to existing folders. So I changed the path to add the file into an existing folder and it worked!

In my case it was Windows Defender which was preventing Rstudio to write any file on hard drive. Either you need to turn Controlled Folder Access off or add Rstudio in the exclusion list.

I also had this problem when working with RStudio and R Markdown. I was getting this error message and had an annoying number of fatal errors which closed RStudio. My issue was that I was working off a network drive and either the name was too long, as in #AHedge above or my network firewalls were giving me trouble. For the moment, I have moved my working files to my desktop and things seem to be working fine. Not sure what this means for my file management over time.

Just want to add more clarity(scenarios in my experience) to what M Beausoleil mentioned.
When you are using a shared-working-directory and trying to rewrite the RDS files which are already existing in a working-directory written by some other user, you get this error.
As some people have already quoted that deleting the existing RDS files or changing the working directory works. It's not a magic. It just works because you are writing a new RDS file and not trying to re-write the old ones.

I came into the same problem after I re-install a new version of RStudio.
The Rmarkdown file I created using old version of RStudio shows the same problem.
When I use ggplot() to draw a picture the error code are as follow:
Warning in gzfile(file, "wb") :
cannot open compressed file 'I:/Rlearning/.Rproj.user/shared/notebooks/58A1385C-PCA作图/1/2C15461A183AC56C/cco192gb0pow1_t\_rs_rdf_32004888ecb.rdf', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection
Solution:
Create a new Rmarkdown file
Delete all codes
Copy your old Rmarkdown code into it.

I had the same problem.For me, it was caused due to not having enough disk space on the drive where R studio was installed.Freeing up space works.

The reason for the error is that your username is Chinese.Please create new user folder with English in the user directory.For example, you could name the folder for "DavidSmith".Then, you need create three folders("AppData","Local","Temp").File directory C:\Users\DavidSmith\AppData\Local\Temp.
In the Advanced system settings which will modify the environment variables TMP and TEMP C:\Users\DavidSmith\AppData\Local\Temp.Save them.
After modification, open RStudio and try again.
Notice:TMP and TEMP are modified in the USER VARIABLE.

I just ran into this problem after changing my system locale.
Check your locale using Sys.getlocale().
Change it to appropriate one using Sys.setLocale("LC_ALL","ENG") (replace "ENG" with appropriate one)
I can't say with certainty which locale would be appropriate, but it seems to be coherent with default OS one.
Hope this helps!

I had this error because of an invalid character in the filename to be used to save the file, in my case "/" (there are many such characters that cannot be used in a filename). I removed the character and it was solved.

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I have another instance of this error which seems to be new (or at least not listed here or here: apparently it's not OK to save a file with the name aux.RData. I guess it's a reserved filename.
x <- rnorm(9000)
save(x, file = "aux.RData")
Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : no se puede abrir la conexión
Also: Warning message:
In gzfile(file, "wb") :
cannot open compressed file 'aux.RData', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
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save(x, file = "aux_file.RData")

Haven't seen this case in the other answers:
if this seems to happen all the time, and to be very persistent when it does happen, check the default directory in your file handling software connection.
In my case FileZilla was logging on to my DigitalOcean droplet as "root" and whenever I used FileZilla to create a directory it was setting write permissions to "root", whereas my RStudio on the same droplet read/wrote as "My_Name". Anytime I set something up in FZ (e.g. large imported files, renamed or copied) the permissions would switch and I'd get this error.
If this is what is causing frequent error messages it can be solved instantly with chown -R My_Name directoryname but in the longer run, if you are going to be using your file handler to define and create a lot of directories, it will pay to create a connection whose default name is the same name you use for RStudio.

In my case, when it happened first, months ago, the solution here worked.
But recently, it came back, constantly... What solved this time was to change the anti-virus. I have not just the Windows defender, but also a 2nd anti-virus, the same in both times. I ended up deinstalling it and installing another antivirus... After this, the problem did not happen again...

After several days trying to solve this same ERROR or problem in my case (Windows 10 and R), I tried to save my file(file.RData) in D disk instead of C disk (where I always was working and I have installed R) and it was fine, without problems,my file was saved in D:/Users.When I tried many times to save it in C disk, always gave me Permission denied.
save(Myfile, file="D:/Users/Myfile.RData")

I encountered this same issue when trying to save an Rds file from an Markdown file. Changing my relative file path to an absolute file path worked for me.

In my case, this error was because the file that I wanted to re-write, was read-only (for whatever reason, I didn't do it myself). I just right-click on the file's name in the folder and unchecked the read-only property. After that it worked.

getting access to the path denied while saving a zip file using DotNetZip library

I am trying to create a zip file and save it using DotNetZip library.
But for some reason i get a "Access to the path is denied" error when i try to save it. Code4 is below
Dim zipFile As New ZipFile()
zipFile.CompressionLevel = Ionic.Zlib.CompressionLevel.BestCompression
zipFile.AddFile(filePath)
Dim tempFilePath As String = "abc.zip"
zipFile.TempFileFolder = "D:\Company Data\Operations\media\test_folder_cover_scan\"
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I have given all possible access to the folder. I am using .net 3.5. This whole code works in a web service
Please advise

The backslashes in your TempFileFolder are not escaped which might cause a problem. Try using a verbatim string literal instead.
zipFile.TempFileFolder = #"D:\Company Data\Operations\media\test_folder_cover_scan\"
Also, the tempFilePath in your example doesn't include a full path, could it be that it is trying to save the ZIP into a different folder from the one you are expecting (and have assigned permissions to)?
Have you assigned permissions to both the temporary file folder AND the real destination folder?

It looks like you don't have access to where you are trying to save it to. Try opening the command prompt and typing
takeown /f D:\Company Data\Operations\media\test_folder_cover_scan
That should give you ownership to the folder you are trying to save the file to.

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