Compress-Archive creates zero files duplicating directories

[dermeister0]

Steps to reproduce

Execute a test script.

if (Test-Path 'Root')
{
    Remove-Item 'Root' -Recurse -Force
}
Remove-Item *.zip

$path = 'Root\Level0\LastDir'
New-Item -ItemType Directory $path | Out-Null
New-Item -ItemType Directory "$path\EmptyDir" | Out-Null
Set-Content "$path\Document.txt" (Get-Date)

Compress-Archive 'Root' 'Test1.zip'

Add-Type -AssemblyName 'System.IO.Compression.FileSystem'
[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory("$PSScriptRoot\Root", "$PSScriptRoot\Test2.zip")

$sevenZip = 'C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe'
if (Test-Path $sevenZip)
{
    &$sevenZip a 'Test3.zip' 'Root'
}

Test1.zip is created by PowerShell, Test2.zip - by .NET 4.5 ZipFile, Test3.zip - by 7-Zip.

Test1.zip can't be extracted.

Test2.zip has invalid zero file instead of empty directory.

Test3.zip is correct.

Expected behavior

Created archive with correct structure.

Root/Level0/LastDir/EmptyDir/
Root/Level0/LastDir/Document.txt

Actual behavior

Every directory that does not contain files has a duplicating zero-length file in the archive.
Empty directory is converted to file.

Root/Level0/LastDir/Document.txt
Root/Level0/LastDir/EmptyDir
Root/Level0

Environment data

> $PSVersionTable
Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.14393.693
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.14393.693
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

[dermeister0]

The issue persists in gallery too.

Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive 1.0.1.0

[paulirwin]

I can reproduce this on PowerShell 5 as well as 6.1 (Core). Workaround is to put a dummy file in each folder, but would really like to see this get fixed.

[ayousuf23]

This is fixed in 2.0.1.