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Damaged stuffit zip file. Help!

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BLewisMaltz

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I have a .zip file that I made with stuffit prior to my harddrive failing. It was an emergency, last minute backup. Now my powerbook is fixed but the zip file won't unzip. It gets to a specific file to uncompress and then quits. If I try using stuffit expander and not the apple decompresser the application quits.

Please, please tell me there's something I can do. My wedding photos are in this file. There's got to be a way to repair it, or skip through to the other files, or extract some of the files or...or something.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
I would try using unzip in Terminal:

unzip /path/to/file/whatever.zip

If you just type unzip and a space then drag the zipfile into the terminal window, that should give you the full path.

If you want to see what's going on use the -v flag:

unzip -v /path/to/file/whatever.zip

Unzip might be a bit more forgiving than the GUI versions...
 
BLewisMaltz said:
I have a .zip file that I made with stuffit prior to my harddrive failing. It was an emergency, last minute backup. Now my powerbook is fixed but the zip file won't unzip. It gets to a specific file to uncompress and then quits. If I try using stuffit expander and not the apple decompresser the application quits.

Please, please tell me there's something I can do. My wedding photos are in this file. There's got to be a way to repair it, or skip through to the other files, or extract some of the files or...or something.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
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You have a multifile .zip archive? I am aware of at least two apps that will allow you to open a .zip archive and extract individual individual compressed files from it. They are Stuffit Deluxe and ZipIt 2.2.2.
 
MisterMe said:
You have a multifile .zip archive? I am aware of at least two apps that will allow you to open a .zip archive and extract individual individual compressed files from it. They are Stuffit Deluxe and ZipIt 2.2.2.
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Stuffit Expander quits unexpectedly when I try and unzip the file with it and ZipIt 2.2.2 gives me an error message saying it is unable to open the file.

I created it with DropZip about one week ago before my hard drive crashed, copied it onto my ipod and then back when the harddrive was replaced.

Any ideas how I can fix it or open it or something?
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
I would try using unzip in Terminal:

unzip /path/to/file/whatever.zip

If you just type unzip and a space then drag the zipfile into the terminal window, that should give you the full path.

If you want to see what's going on use the -v flag:

unzip -v /path/to/file/whatever.zip

Unzip might be a bit more forgiving than the GUI versions...
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I don't know if this helps, but here's what happened when I tried this:

apple-s-powerbook-g4-15:~ apple$ unzip -v /pile.zip
Archive: /pile.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
note: /pile.zip may be a plain executable, not an archive
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /pile.zip or
/pile.zip.zip, and cannot find /pile.zip.ZIP, period.
apple-s-powerbook-g4-15:~ apple$
 
Doesn't look too good. But you could try to fix it:

zip -F /path/to/file.zip

You still have the file somwhere else, as backup, before "we" start messing seriously with this one, right...? ;)
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
Doesn't look too good. But you could try to fix it:

zip -F /path/to/file.zip

You still have the file somwhere else, as backup, before "we" start messing seriously with this one, right...? ;)
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Yeah, I have a backup of it. After doing the last suggestion you made, it went through an enourmous amount (possibly all, hard to say, it's a huge backup) of the file and then ended with:

zip error: Unexpected end of zip file (/pile.zip)
apple-s-powerbook-g4-15:~ apple$

Next step?
 
Will it list all the files, before complaining that the end of file is inncorect?

unzip -l /your/file.zip

(That's a lowe case 'L' in the flag)

If it does it might be possible to pick out files from the archive by specifying which files you want to get...

Edit: You didn't "mess" with the settings of DropZip so that it made a multi-part archive, did you? It just made the one zip file?
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
Will it list all the files, before complaining that the end of file is inncorect?

Edit: You didn't "mess" with the settings of DropZip so that it made a multi-part archive, did you? It just made the one zip file?
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It doesn't list all the files. Just a lot of them.

And no, I did not make it a multi-part archive.
 
BLewisMaltz said:
Stuffit Expander quits unexpectedly when I try and unzip the file with it and ZipIt 2.2.2 gives me an error message saying it is unable to open the file.

I created it with DropZip about one week ago before my hard drive crashed, copied it onto my ipod and then back when the harddrive was replaced.

Any ideas how I can fix it or open it or something?
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Stuffit Deluxe and Stuffit Expander are very different apps. However, it is likely that a damaged .zip file will fail to open in Deluxe.
 
Go it to work!

Thank you to all who helped.

My freaking wedding photos were in there.

Can't tell you how relieved I am.

Thanks again to all!
 
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