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RE: [urgent] huge corrupt zip file
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Originally posted by Voldemort
i have this 10 gig backup in a zip file in my external hdd, and it won't let me open it and claims it is corrupt...
Your problem may not be as much that the file is corrupt, as with its size.  There are two versions of ZIP format -- the classic uses 32-bit sizes and offsets in its directory structure, so you really can't have a file larger than 4GB.  A version of the format using 64-bit integers (and effectively having no limits) has been around for a while, but may still not be supported by all software.

The first thing I'd do in your situation is try a couple different unzip tools, starting with the same one used to create the archive...  If you are trying repair utilities, make sure you do it on a copy of the archive, because a repair utility that only understands 32-bit ZIP format would probably only do additional damage.

This post was edited on 11-22-2007 at 06:17 PM by Adeptus.
11-22-2007 06:15 PM
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[urgent] huge corrupt zip file - by Voldemort on 11-22-2007 at 05:18 PM
RE: [urgent] huge corrupt zip file - by Quantum on 11-22-2007 at 05:21 PM
RE: [urgent] huge corrupt zip file - by Voldemort on 11-22-2007 at 05:25 PM
RE: [urgent] huge corrupt zip file - by Ezra on 11-22-2007 at 05:27 PM
RE: [urgent] huge corrupt zip file - by Adeptus on 11-22-2007 at 06:15 PM


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