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+"""Automatically zip files/ and metadata csv (and only these two values) from the filepaths.yaml"""
+import yaml
+import zipfile
+from pathlib import Path
+
+#FIXME: This will zip hidden files, like .DS_Store on mac. Users should just check that that doesn't show in the logs, or
+# we could add a bigger fix by filtering for it in collect_files.
+
+def collect_files(paths: list[Path]) -> list[Path]:
+    """Return all files (counting recursively) from a given list of paths"""
+    all_files = []
+
+    # Loop through paths and add files to list
+    for path in paths:
+        if path.is_dir():
+            all_files.extend(file for file in path.rglob('*') if file.is_file())
+        else:
+            all_files.append(path)
+    return all_files
+
+def zip_files(csv_and_metadata_files: list[Path], name: str, root_dir: Path) -> None:
+    """Zip all files from a list of paths with given name inside the root directory"""
+    # Add zip extension if missing in name argument
+    if not name.endswith(".zip"):
+        name += ".zip"
+
+    # Make output path
+    output_path = root_dir / name
+
+    # Get file list before zipping so we can count progress
+    all_files = collect_files(csv_and_metadata_files)
+    total = len(all_files)
+
+    # Zip the files into chosen location
+    try:
+        with zipfile.ZipFile(output_path, "x") as zipf:
+            for idx, file in enumerate(all_files, start=1):
+                print(f"Zipping {idx}/{total}: {file}")
+                zipf.write(file, arcname=file.relative_to(root_dir))
+    except FileExistsError:
+        print(f"\nFailure: zip file already exists: {output_path}\n")
+        return
+
+    print("Done")
+
+def main():
+    # Get directory structure from filepaths.yaml
+    with open('filepaths.yaml') as file:
+        f = yaml.safe_load(file)
+        f1 = Path(f['metadata'][0])
+        print(f"F1: {f1}")
+        f2 = Path(f['assets'])
+        print(f"F2: {f2}")
+
+    # Write where directory to put zip is (root of all our operations, likely the work folder)
+    root_dir = f2.parent
+    print(root_dir)
+
+    # Guess desired zip name from the yaml file input
+    zip_folder_name = f1.stem
+    # Save assets/ and metadata csv (f1 and f2) to a folder in the root directory
+    zip_files([f1, f2], zip_folder_name, root_dir)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
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