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Help with zipped files

  • 11-01-2007 12:37pm
    #1
    esperanza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭


    I have a group of zipped files that i can't open because the zipped method is unknown ... don't know what went wrong - but i need to open these files urgently - is there anyway of doing this???


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    What zip utility do you have?


  • #3
    Saruman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    Are they actually .zip files??? or some other compression format?


  • #4
    esperanza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭esperanza


    Ruu wrote:
    What zip utility do you have?


    the one i have now is just the normal windows compressed folder utility.

    yesterday i used winzip i think, but something went wrong.

    no hope of recuperating these zipped files, i guess?


  • #5
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    the one i have now is just the normal windows compressed folder utility.
    That's fairly crap at the best of times. If the zip file has become corrupt then WinRAR can fix it. If you downloaded it then maybe it's not a zip file at all. TrID can help identify it.


  • #6
    liamo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭liamo


    Here is a link to a free compression/archival utility that I use all the time.

    It's possible that the files are named ".zip" but are not, in fact, zip files. It's also possible that they've been corrupted in some way.

    Either way, download the utility and see if it works for you.

    Regards,

    Liam


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  • #7
    esperanza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭esperanza


    jor el wrote:
    That's fairly crap at the best of times. If the zip file has become corrupt then WinRAR can fix it. If you downloaded it then maybe it's not a zip file at all. TrID can help identify it.

    I don't use win rar, prefer to rely on windows stuff due to recent scares with system... long story in another thread! ;-)

    it's ok, i had to start the job over again, but will look into what went wrong...


  • #8
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    try the latest winzip trail version to see if it's yet another new tweak of the format or pkware too

    then recompress the expanded file with 7zip to see it's way smaller then the propietry new zip format, then flame the person who sent you the file

    it could also be corrupt, especially if downloaded


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