Damaged zipped file not completely unarchiving.

[smoore808]

Hey, I tried to unzip a zipped file, but it stopped in the middle on more than one occasion. I realized that it must have been damaged so I looked through threads and decided to use terminal.

I entered:

unzip -l /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip

And this is what came up:

Archive: /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.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.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip or
/Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip.zip, and cannot find /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip.ZIP, period.

If anyone could help me on what to enter next it would be very helpful, thank you 🙂

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Well before anything else you could the last command from this old thread (which I know you found and read 😉), assuming the music is in mp3 format:

unzip /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip *.mp3*

(If it's another format, like ogg or aac or whatever, adjust accordingly, and if it might be multiple formats, run the command once for each appropriate file type.)

 

[smoore808]

Oh ok thanks I did that and this is what happened:

Archive: /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.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.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip or
/Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip.zip, and cannot find /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip.ZIP, period.

 

[smoore808]

Also when I put this in:

unzip -l /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip

This is what came up:

Archive: /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.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.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip or
/Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip.zip, and cannot find /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip.ZIP, period.

 

[smoore808]

OK wow I put this in:

zip -F /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip

Everything came up that was in the file. It was zip: reading blah blah blah for everything. There were pics and word documents and music.

What do I do after this?

zip error: Zip file structure invalid (/Users/smoore808/Desktop/music.zip)

That is what it said at the bottom of everything in my zipped folder.

 

[smoore808]

Is there any way to fix this from keep coming up (or could someone tell me what it means?):

Archive: /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music copy.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.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music copy.zip or
/Users/smoore808/Desktop/music copy.zip.zip, and cannot find /Users/smoore808/Desktop/music copy.zip.ZIP, period.