Answering three years later for posterity - Rather than providing the zipped contents, provide a URL to the folder itself. Here's the basic idea: 						let folderUrl = ... 						let itemProvider = NSItemProvider() 						itemProvider.suggestedName = folderUrl.lastPathComponent 						itemProvider.registerFileRepresentation(forTypeIdentifier: "public.folder", visibility: .all) { 								$0(folderUrl, false, nil) // wild stab in the dark for mysterious undocumented boolean 								return nil 						}