Cannot Unzip Zipped File For Mac

I had a friend send me a large compressed zip file. He is a mac user and I use windows XP. As far as I can tell the main problem with decompression is that almost all of the file in the zip folder have a '/' character in the file name which is acceptable on Macs but illegal in Windows. Jul 22, 2012  I cannot get my zipped file to unzip. I downloaded WinZip for Macintosh but I still cannot see the zipped files. I cannot get my zipped file to unzip. I downloaded WinZip for Macintosh but I still cannot see the zipped files. Ask Your Own Mac Question. I cannot get outlook for mac running on my macbook.

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I was trying to move the files to another hard drive. So I archived all my photos in one large ZIP file using the Mac OS X built-in compress function. But the file failed to extract. I've tried many programs, but none of the programs I tried were able to extract the file. I've tried Mac OS X's extract utility, (command line), all failed. Mac's archive utility and StuffIt don't seem to support large files, and 7-Zip's command line version gave an error stating unsupported archive. I have no luck in Windows either as many of my files have Chinese filenames, and couldn't extract to the correct name under Windows.

Are there some programs that can support large files, can handle files compressed using Mac OS X's compress function, and can support UTF-8 filename? With or without GUI is fine. Update Well, I had made the wrong decision to compress the files, and it's already too late.

I thought I should be able to extract the file if I could compress it. It's too late, the original copies are gone, only a large ZIP file left here. I have tried using 'unzip', but it says End-of-central-directory signature not found. I guess it doesn't have large file support as well. I would try the Windows Vista method as stated by SuperMagic, but I need to borrow a computer for that. Anyway, thank you everyone, but please provide more suggestions on what software that could possibly extract that file.

I ran into this same problem recently, on OS X 10.6.6. I have been zipping my VMware VMs up at a command line, and copying them to backup media. When I tried to unzip a backed-up VM after a hardware failure, I had a few tense minutes as I wrestled with unzip's 'start of central directory not found; zipfile corrupt' error. After some poking around, the problem turns out to be that OS X ships with v3.0 of Info-Zip's zip, which supports the Zip64 extensions and uses them automatically when needed (so I was creating Zip64 files without realizing it), but only v5.52 of Info-Zip's unzip, which doesn't support Zip64 - Zip64 support was added in unzip's v6.0. I have no idea why Apple didn't ship an unzip that matches the shipped zip, but I found two easy solutions:. MacPorts users can install unzip 6.0 using 'sudo port install unzip'. The shareware archive utility BetterZip, which is a handy piece of software anyway, supports Zip64, so just by using that instead of the command line, I was able to extract my archived VM and continue my day.

I had exactly the same problem. Zipped a file with the standard mac archive software. Deleted the file. A month later tried to open the archive and got the same error - Guess this has something with the fact that the file was over 1gb SO I tried all and more of the software above and nothing worked after a few weeks of searching and trying I found one that worked:) So I guess this is worth mentioning: The Unarchiver - I downloaded this from: these people are my new hero's:) It has the necessary things for broken or to large zipfiles.

Cannot Unzip Zipped File For Mac Windows 10

Mac Archive Utility will unzip the file into: /Volumes/'Your Drive Name'/.TemporaryItems/folders.501/Cleanup At Startup/'Random Name E.g.: BAH.odJFh'/'archiveName' Then go ahead and start the un-archive and wait until you get the error, then leave the dialog box open. Open terminal window. Sudo su cd to the path above, remember you can type /Vo and hit tab to finish the word get as far as you can and do a ls to see what the ramdon directory names are change into the final directory where all your files are. Then type mv. Laptop sleeve case bag pouch store for mac.

/Volumes/'Drive Name'/. Where you want to put files/. Now change read write on the folder of where you moved it to including all items. Finally click OK on the first error.

You must wait to click ok on the error until after the files are moved because the OK erases all the files.

Sometimes you encounter a file on the Net which is compressed as a self-extracting zip-file for Windows only. Its file extension is '.exe'. But you HAVE to have its contents, and you just can't open that.exe file! For instance, a PDF manual from Canon's site - they tell you to open it with Acrobat, but they made it an exe, saving just 0.2 MB. Well, there is a 'dirty' way to open it. Just rename the file extension to '.zip' (and confirm the dialog), and open it with Stuffit Expander.

It doesn't work with Panther's built-in zip-extractor ( BOMArchiveHelper) - so don't double-click the file, but choose 'Open with Stuffit Expander' from the contextual menu (control-click on the file). I tested this with Stuffit Expander 7.0.3, but my guess is that you can use almost any version. You can also use the command-line utility unzip in Terminal - in that case, you don't even have to rename the file. A simple unzip thisfile.exe is enough to get things going. I believe this command comes with Panther, but I'm not sure. Either way, you can obtain it from the package called 'zip.'

I also never thought of this. I tried the drag and drop method and it just didn't do anything, and deluxe just said 'what the heck am I supposed to do with this???' I tried it on some files that caused deluxe to hiccup previously and they extracted no problem.

The.exe's you are referring to are self extracting zip archives. Just a.zip with a code stub of winzip (or another util) attached so it can extract the files from the.zip archive. It's basically the equivalent of using stuffit to create a self extracting archive in case someone doesn't have stuffit installed on their mac. Though I doubt there's any mac user anywhere who doesn't have at least one copy of stuffit expander installed on some drive somewhere.:-) The other.exes are probably just plain old applications, and all sorts of weirdness can happen with those. They really should use some other extension for self extracting.zip archives to help us cut down on the confusion.;-).