In cases where a user is attempting to compress content in Resources where the addition of the resulting zip file would exceed the quota, the user is currently presented with the following generic error message:

An error has occurred while compressing to zip archive

Meanwhile, logged to catalina.out an error message with an OverQuotaException stack trace is logged, unknown to the user. 

The generic message may incline the user to waste time by trying again. Instead, a more helpful message to present to the user when an OverQuotaException occurs would be the message defined by the “overquota” property in content.properties:

Adding this resource would place this account over quota. To add this resource, some resources may need to be deleted.

FYI: This particular case was partly the impetus in discovering the bug described in .