diff --git a/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveReadRequest.cs b/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveReadRequest.cs
index a535633f4b..0a2e2e4491 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveReadRequest.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveReadRequest.cs
@@ -254,10 +254,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Region.CoreModules.Avatar.Inventory.Archiver
 
                 string newFolderName = rawDirsToCreate[i].Remove(identicalNameIdentifierIndex);
 
-                // Escape back characters
-                newFolderName = newFolderName.Replace("/", "/");
-                newFolderName = newFolderName.Replace("&", "&");
-                
+                newFolderName = InventoryArchiveUtils.UnescapeArchivePath(newFolderName);                
                 UUID newFolderId = UUID.Random();
 
                 // Asset type has to be Unknown here rather than Folder, otherwise the created folder can't be
@@ -338,10 +335,6 @@ namespace OpenSim.Region.CoreModules.Avatar.Inventory.Archiver
         /// <param name="nodesLoaded">All the inventory nodes (items and folders) loaded so far</param>
         protected InventoryItemBase LoadItem(byte[] data, InventoryFolderBase loadFolder)
         {
-            // Escape back characters
-//            filePath = filePath.Replace("&#47;", "/");
-//            filePath = filePath.Replace("&amp;", "&");
-            
             InventoryItemBase item = UserInventoryItemSerializer.Deserialize(data);
             
             // Don't use the item ID that's in the file
diff --git a/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveUtils.cs b/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveUtils.cs
index 78032d1453..247cee41c8 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveUtils.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveUtils.cs
@@ -295,5 +295,28 @@ namespace OpenSim.Region.CoreModules.Avatar.Inventory.Archiver
             
             return sb.ToString();
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Escape an archive path.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// This has to be done differently from human paths because we can't leave in any "/" characters (due to
+        /// problems if the archive is built from or extracted to a filesystem
+        /// <param name="path"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static string EscapeArchivePath(string path)
+        {
+            // Only encode ampersands (for escaping anything) and / (since this is used as general dir separator).
+            return path.Replace("&", "&amp;").Replace("/", "&#47;");            
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Unescape an archive path.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="path"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>        
+        public static string UnescapeArchivePath(string path)
+        {
+            return path.Replace("&#47;", "/").Replace("&amp;", "&");            
+        }
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveWriteRequest.cs b/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveWriteRequest.cs
index 6c371988be..bbb49f6108 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveWriteRequest.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver/InventoryArchiveWriteRequest.cs
@@ -362,13 +362,9 @@ namespace OpenSim.Region.CoreModules.Avatar.Inventory.Archiver
         /// <returns></returns>
         public static string CreateArchiveFolderName(string name, UUID id)
         {
-            // Only encode ampersands (for escaping anything) and / (since this is used as general dir separator).
-            name = name.Replace("&", "&amp;");
-            name = name.Replace("/", "&#47;");
-            
             return string.Format(
                 "{0}{1}{2}/",
-                name,
+                InventoryArchiveUtils.EscapeArchivePath(name),
                 ArchiveConstants.INVENTORY_NODE_NAME_COMPONENT_SEPARATOR,
                 id);
         }
@@ -381,12 +377,9 @@ namespace OpenSim.Region.CoreModules.Avatar.Inventory.Archiver
         /// <returns></returns>
         public static string CreateArchiveItemName(string name, UUID id)
         {
-            name = name.Replace("&", "&amp;");
-            name = name.Replace("/", "&#47;");
-            
             return string.Format(
                 "{0}{1}{2}.xml",
-                name,
+                InventoryArchiveUtils.EscapeArchivePath(name),
                 ArchiveConstants.INVENTORY_NODE_NAME_COMPONENT_SEPARATOR,
                 id);
         }