diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index cc1dcff..cf92250 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "miniz_oxide",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "fs-err"
+version = "2.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5ebd3504ad6116843b8375ad70df74e7bfe83cac77a1f3fe73200c844d43bfe0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "getrandom"
 version = "0.2.3"
@@ -206,6 +212,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "atty",
  "bzip2",
  "flate2",
+ "fs-err",
  "infer",
  "lazy_static",
  "libc",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f1d3a9f..32e22f6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ description = "A command-line utility for easily compressing and decompressing f
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [dependencies]
+fs-err      = "2.6.0"
 atty        = "0.2.14"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 walkdir     = "2.3.2"
diff --git a/src/archive/tar.rs b/src/archive/tar.rs
index a5fa6f0..c97c41a 100644
--- a/src/archive/tar.rs
+++ b/src/archive/tar.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 //! Contains Tar-specific building and unpacking functions
 
 use std::{
-    env, fs,
+    env,
+    fs::File,
     io::prelude::*,
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
 };
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ where
             if path.is_dir() {
                 builder.append_dir(path, path)?;
             } else {
-                let mut file = fs::File::open(path)?;
+                let mut file = File::open(path)?;
                 builder.append_file(path, &mut file)?;
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/archive/zip.rs b/src/archive/zip.rs
index be47ea8..793ab8a 100644
--- a/src/archive/zip.rs
+++ b/src/archive/zip.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 //! Contains Zip-specific building and unpacking functions
 
 use std::{
-    env, fs,
+    env,
+    fs::Permissions,
     io::{self, prelude::*},
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
 };
 
+use fs_err as fs;
+
 use walkdir::WalkDir;
 use zip::{self, read::ZipFile, ZipArchive};
 
@@ -124,7 +127,7 @@ fn __unix_set_permissions(file_path: &Path, file: &ZipFile) -> crate::Result<()>
     use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
 
     if let Some(mode) = file.unix_mode() {
-        fs::set_permissions(file_path, fs::Permissions::from_mode(mode))?;
+        fs::set_permissions(file_path, Permissions::from_mode(mode))?;
     }
 
     Ok(())
diff --git a/src/cli.rs b/src/cli.rs
index 9ff64c6..8d93c01 100644
--- a/src/cli.rs
+++ b/src/cli.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ use std::{
     vec::Vec,
 };
 
+use fs_err as fs;
+
 use strsim::normalized_damerau_levenshtein;
 
 use crate::{arg_flag, flag, oof, Error};
@@ -73,7 +75,7 @@ fn is_typo(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> bool {
 }
 
 fn canonicalize(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> crate::Result<PathBuf> {
-    match std::fs::canonicalize(&path.as_ref()) {
+    match fs::canonicalize(&path.as_ref()) {
         Ok(abs_path) => Ok(abs_path),
         Err(io_err) => {
             if !path.as_ref().exists() {
diff --git a/src/commands.rs b/src/commands.rs
index bf278b6..40a6e8d 100644
--- a/src/commands.rs
+++ b/src/commands.rs
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 //! Also, where correctly call functions based on the detected `Command`.
 
 use std::{
-    fs,
     io::{self, BufReader, BufWriter, Read, Write},
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
 };
 
+use fs_err as fs;
 use utils::colors;
 
 use crate::{
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ const BUFFER_CAPACITY: usize = 1024 * 64;
 
 fn represents_several_files(files: &[PathBuf]) -> bool {
     let is_non_empty_dir = |path: &PathBuf| {
-        let is_non_empty = || !dir_is_empty(&path);
+        let is_non_empty = || !dir_is_empty(path);
 
         path.is_dir().then(is_non_empty).unwrap_or_default()
     };
diff --git a/src/utils.rs b/src/utils.rs
index a03d227..2298f2b 100644
--- a/src/utils.rs
+++ b/src/utils.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 use std::{
     cmp, env,
     ffi::OsStr,
-    fs::{self, ReadDir},
+    fs::ReadDir,
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
 };
 
+use fs_err as fs;
+
 use crate::{dialogs::Confirmation, info, oof};
 
 /// Checks if the given path represents an empty directory.
diff --git a/tests/utils.rs b/tests/utils.rs
index 3ab9831..20d0133 100644
--- a/tests/utils.rs
+++ b/tests/utils.rs
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 
 #![allow(dead_code)]
 
-use std::{
-    fs,
-    path::{Path, PathBuf},
-};
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 
+use fs_err as fs;
 use ouch::{cli::Command, commands::run, oof};
+use rand::{distributions::Alphanumeric, prelude::SmallRng, Rng, SeedableRng};
 
 pub fn create_empty_dir(at: &Path, filename: &str) -> PathBuf {
     let dirname = Path::new(filename);
+
     let full_path = at.join(dirname);
 
     fs::create_dir(&full_path).expect("Failed to create an empty directory");
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ pub fn create_empty_dir(at: &Path, filename: &str) -> PathBuf {
 }
 
 pub fn compress_files(at: &Path, paths_to_compress: &[PathBuf], format: &str) -> PathBuf {
-    let archive_path = String::from("archive.") + format;
+    let rng = SmallRng::from_entropy();
+
+    let s: String = rng.sample_iter(&Alphanumeric).take(7).map(char::from).collect();
+
+    let archive_path = format!("archive{}{}", s, format);
     let archive_path = at.join(archive_path);
 
     let command = Command::Compress { files: paths_to_compress.to_vec(), output_path: archive_path.to_path_buf() };