diff --git a/fileutils/file.go b/fileutils/file.go
index 00549584..5c0248df 100644
--- a/fileutils/file.go
+++ b/fileutils/file.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package fileutils
 import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
+	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/afero"
@@ -50,3 +51,59 @@ func CopyFile(fs afero.Fs, source, dest string) error {
 
 	return nil
 }
+
+// CommonPrefix returns common directory path of provided files
+func CommonPrefix(sep byte, paths ...string) string {
+	// Handle special cases.
+	switch len(paths) {
+	case 0:
+		return ""
+	case 1:
+		return path.Clean(paths[0])
+	}
+
+	// Note, we treat string as []byte, not []rune as is often
+	// done in Go. (And sep as byte, not rune). This is because
+	// most/all supported OS' treat paths as string of non-zero
+	// bytes. A filename may be displayed as a sequence of Unicode
+	// runes (typically encoded as UTF-8) but paths are
+	// not required to be valid UTF-8 or in any normalized form
+	// (e.g. "é" (U+00C9) and "é" (U+0065,U+0301) are different
+	// file names.
+	c := []byte(path.Clean(paths[0]))
+
+	// We add a trailing sep to handle the case where the
+	// common prefix directory is included in the path list
+	// (e.g. /home/user1, /home/user1/foo, /home/user1/bar).
+	// path.Clean will have cleaned off trailing / separators with
+	// the exception of the root directory, "/" (in which case we
+	// make it "//", but this will get fixed up to "/" bellow).
+	c = append(c, sep)
+
+	// Ignore the first path since it's already in c
+	for _, v := range paths[1:] {
+		// Clean up each path before testing it
+		v = path.Clean(v) + string(sep)
+
+		// Find the first non-common byte and truncate c
+		if len(v) < len(c) {
+			c = c[:len(v)]
+		}
+		for i := 0; i < len(c); i++ {
+			if v[i] != c[i] {
+				c = c[:i]
+				break
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Remove trailing non-separator characters and the final separator
+	for i := len(c) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
+		if c[i] == sep {
+			c = c[:i]
+			break
+		}
+	}
+
+	return string(c)
+}
diff --git a/fileutils/file_test.go b/fileutils/file_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fd2b5119
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fileutils/file_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+package fileutils
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestCommonPrefix(t *testing.T) {
+	testCases := map[string]struct {
+		paths []string
+		want  string
+	}{
+		"same lvl": {
+			paths: []string{
+				"/home/user/file1",
+				"/home/user/file2",
+			},
+			want: "/home/user",
+		},
+		"sub folder": {
+			paths: []string{
+				"/home/user/folder",
+				"/home/user/folder/file",
+			},
+			want: "/home/user/folder",
+		},
+		"relative path": {
+			paths: []string{
+				"/home/user/folder",
+				"/home/user/folder/../folder2",
+			},
+			want: "/home/user",
+		},
+		"no common path": {
+			paths: []string{
+				"/home/user/folder",
+				"/etc/file",
+			},
+			want: "",
+		},
+	}
+	for name, tt := range testCases {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			if got := CommonPrefix('/', tt.paths...); got != tt.want {
+				t.Errorf("CommonPrefix() = %v, want %v", got, tt.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/http/raw.go b/http/raw.go
index 4976252b..b340165a 100644
--- a/http/raw.go
+++ b/http/raw.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/mholt/archiver"
 
 	"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2/files"
+	"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2/fileutils"
 	"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2/users"
 )
 
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ var rawHandler = withUser(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, d *data)
 	return rawDirHandler(w, r, d, file)
 })
 
-func addFile(ar archiver.Writer, d *data, path string) error {
+func addFile(ar archiver.Writer, d *data, path, commonPath string) error {
 	// Checks are always done with paths with "/" as path separator.
 	path = strings.Replace(path, "\\", "/", -1)
 	if !d.Check(path) {
@@ -115,10 +116,12 @@ func addFile(ar archiver.Writer, d *data, path string) error {
 	}
 	defer file.Close()
 
+	filename := strings.TrimPrefix(path, commonPath)
+	filename = strings.TrimPrefix(filename, "/")
 	err = ar.Write(archiver.File{
 		FileInfo: archiver.FileInfo{
 			FileInfo:   info,
-			CustomName: strings.TrimPrefix(path, "/"),
+			CustomName: filename,
 		},
 		ReadCloser: file,
 	})
@@ -133,7 +136,7 @@ func addFile(ar archiver.Writer, d *data, path string) error {
 		}
 
 		for _, name := range names {
-			err = addFile(ar, d, filepath.Join(path, name))
+			err = addFile(ar, d, filepath.Join(path, name), commonPath)
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -167,8 +170,10 @@ func rawDirHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, d *data, file *files.
 	}
 	defer ar.Close()
 
+	commonDir := fileutils.CommonPrefix('/', filenames...)
+
 	for _, fname := range filenames {
-		err = addFile(ar, d, fname)
+		err = addFile(ar, d, fname, commonDir)
 		if err != nil {
 			return http.StatusInternalServerError, err
 		}