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| 573289 | 2007-07-27 11:06:00 | I am trying to extract a zip file's contents, but it gets so far and then an error message saying there was a problem extracting a certain file within it. I click OK, and another one pops up. This happens about 4 times and the rest of it extracts just fine. So what can I do sort this problem out? The ZIP file isn't corrupted, since I have extracted it perfectly before (albeit, before I had my PC reformatted). |
Chris815 (10270) | ||
| 573290 | 2007-07-27 11:58:00 | Have you re-installed WinZip or whatever program you're using? Alternatively, try Win-RAR. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 573291 | 2007-07-27 18:55:00 | And after u reformatted, you didnt install (or enable) something like Nvidia firewall did you?? If you did, remove / uninstall / disable it. Its known to corrupt files. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 573292 | 2007-07-27 20:25:00 | Chris I have PKZIP here and PKZIP Fix. They are old command line originals. Or look on the web for pkzip 2.4 or 2.5. | Bantu (52) | ||
| 573293 | 2007-07-28 02:27:00 | The reformatting means that the . zip file has been copied a couple of times . I suspect it's a big file, so the error statistics may have crept in . :( The newly (internally) corrupted file might be readable by the OS without errors being reported . But it looks as a few bits inside the archive have been corrupted . Those files are almost certainly lost . You need redundancy in order to have a chance of recovery . Redundancy is what you lose in exchange for the compression . PKZIPFIX can make changes so that decompression can continue after a corrupted section of a . zip file . It can't recover the data in the corrupted section . It looks as if the function of PKZIPFIX is included in the newer incarnations of xxxZIPxxx . You might be lucky if the NVideo firewall is involved, and is as criminally destructive as Speedy says . However if it was involved when the original copy of the good file was done the new file will have been written with the corruption . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 573294 | 2007-07-31 07:24:00 | Hi thanks for your responses. I only have Windows Firewall. The file is 330 MB. I backed it up onto an external HDD before reformatting my PC, and then just put it back on after. I have tried extracting it with the basic Windows extractor (which told me one of the files was read-only (?) and therefore couldn't be extracted) and UltimateZip which I was given. |
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