diff -ru dom/src/dae/daeZAEUncompressHandler.cpp dom/src/dae/daeZAEUncompressHandler.cpp
--- dom/src/dae/daeZAEUncompressHandler.cpp	2011-04-29 06:17:47.000000000 -0700
+++ dom/src/dae/daeZAEUncompressHandler.cpp	2012-12-31 16:37:37.000000000 -0800
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 #include <dae/daeErrorHandler.h>
 #include <dae/daeZAEUncompressHandler.h>
 
+namespace fs = boost::filesystem;
+
 //-----------------------------------------------------------------
 const std::string daeZAEUncompressHandler::MANIFEST_FILE_NAME("manifest.xml");
 const std::string daeZAEUncompressHandler::MANIFEST_FILE_ROOT_ELEMENT_NAME("dae_root");
@@ -23,8 +26,7 @@
 
     mValidZipFile = mZipFile != NULL;
 
-    mTmpDir = cdom::getSafeTmpDir() + cdom::getRandomFileName() + 
-        cdom::getFileSeparator() + mZipFileURI.pathFile() + cdom::getFileSeparator();
+    mTmpDir = (fs::temp_directory_path() / fs::unique_path()).string();
 }
 
 //-----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -70,10 +73,12 @@
 //-----------------------------------------------------------------
 bool daeZAEUncompressHandler::retrieveRootURIFromManifest(const std::string& tmpDir)
 {
+  std::string manifest_path = (fs::path(tmpDir) / MANIFEST_FILE_NAME).string();
+
     // extract via libxml.
     bool error = false;
     xmlTextReaderPtr xmlReader = xmlReaderForFile(
-        (tmpDir + MANIFEST_FILE_NAME).c_str(),
+        manifest_path.c_str(),
         NULL,
         0
         );
@@ -94,7 +99,7 @@
                     xmlTextReaderRead(xmlReader);
 
                     cdom::trimWhitespaces(rootFilePath);
-                    mRootFilePath = cdom::nativePathToUri(tmpDir + rootFilePath);
+                    mRootFilePath = (fs::path(tmpDir) / rootFilePath).string();
                 }
                 else
                 {
@@ -192,7 +197,7 @@
     {
         if ( currentFileName[ strlen(currentFileName)-1 ] == '/')
         {
-            if (!boost::filesystem::create_directories(destDir + currentFileName))
+            if (!boost::filesystem::create_directories(fs::path(destDir) / currentFileName))
             {
                 daeErrorHandler::get()->handleError("Error creating dir from zip archive in daeZAEUncompressHandler::extractFile\n");
                 error = true;
@@ -206,8 +211,8 @@
                 char* buffer = 0;
                 int readBytes = 1;
                 buffer = new char[ BUFFER_SIZE ];
-                std::string currentOutFilePath(destDir + std::string(currentFileName));
-                std::ofstream outFile(currentOutFilePath.c_str(), std::ios::binary);
+                fs::path currentOutFilePath= fs::path(destDir) / std::string(currentFileName);
+                std::ofstream outFile(currentOutFilePath.string().c_str(), std::ios::binary);
 
                 while (readBytes > 0)
                 {
@@ -226,7 +231,7 @@
                     }
                     else
                     {
-                        if (!checkAndExtractInternalArchive(currentOutFilePath))
+                        if (!checkAndExtractInternalArchive(currentOutFilePath.string()))
                         {
                             error = true;
                         }