# Submissions are failing

**URL:** <https://community.drivendata.org/t/submissions-are-failing/10780>\
**Category:** Youth Mental Health: Automated Abstraction\
**Created:** [September 13, 2024, 11:35am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submissions-are-failing/10780 "2024-09-13T11:35:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayqi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/community.drivendata.org/jayqi/32/924_2.png) [@jayqi](https://community.drivendata.org/u/jayqi)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submissions-are-failing/10780/3 "2024-09-13T14:11:30Z")

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> 1. Create a folder named “submission”  
> …  
> 4. Zip the submission folder so that it’s named “submission.zip”

One common gotcha is that right-clicking on the `submission/` folder and using your OS’s `Compress "submission"` (on macOS) or `Compressed (zipped) folder` (on Windows) will typically create an archive where the folder itself is at the archive root (so you end up with `./submission/main.py` rather than `./main.py` like @kwetstone described). Instead, you should be _inside_ the `submission/` folder, select all of the files you want to include in your submission, and then use the right-click command.

Or, the easiest way to do this correctly is to not use the right-click ZIP creation functionality and instead use `make pack-submission` like @kwetstone suggests.

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