OSX archive dialog never closes

I've noticed that sometimes when you try and create a zip archive using OSX's default "Compress" option, the process starts but seems to never be able to complete (the dialog stays open). The easiest workaround for this is to open Terminal and browse to the folder you want to compress the content of, then execute the following command:

zip Archive * -r

This will create a file called Archive.zip in the same directory with the entire contents of the folder (including subdirectories).

For other usages of the zip command you can execute:

zip -h2