I have a PHP script (running PHP 5.2 on Apache 2.2) that creates a zip archive of files for a user to download. Everything seems to work just fine; the only issue I have is that periodically multiple files will be created before the ZIP archive is successfully finished. Example: archive-name.zip archive-name.zip.a09600 archive-name.zip.b09600 archive-name.zip.c09600 This does not happen every single time; only periodically - the file is still created but sometimes these extra 'files' are left on the server after it finishes. The code that creates the ZIP archive is as follows: $zip_archive = new ZipArchive(); $zip_archive->open($archiveFullName,ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE); if(!file_exists($archiveFullName)) { foreach ($completed_file_arr as $zip_file) { $isFiller = substr($zip_file,-8) == "_err.txt"; if(!$isFiller) { $zip_archive->addFile($zip_file,$localname); } else $zip_archive->addFromString ($zip_file, "The requested source file could not be found."); } } while(!$zip_archive->close()) sleep(1); //ensure that the ZIP file finishes closing