Stuffit Expander stuffed? [Archive]

LandyMan

13-02-2007, 11:26 PM

What a freakin' mess!
I am sitting with a 8Gb zip archive (all related work/personal docs including e-mail archives and house building recons :() all in all the last 5 or so years of my life, that I can't open with Stuffit ... corrupt error.

Any ideas guys?

Thanks

bwana

13-02-2007, 11:38 PM

I find Stuffit buggy at times.

Have you tried 7-Zip via parallels? or Unarchiver? http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html

LandyMan

13-02-2007, 11:43 PM

bwana

13-02-2007, 11:52 PM

In the process of moving the file over to my Vista VM, will try and fix it there. 7-zip is my preferred Windows app ... lightweight and very powerful.

Will give unarchiver a bash as well ... Parallels and MAC OS trying to unpack 8Gb files simultaneously ... should run up the temps a bit :DMove it? Couldnt you just share the folder? Course you're going to want to duplicate it first anyway so perhaps copying it over is the right idea :)

Also - have you tried inflating it from the terminal's unzip command?

LandyMan

13-02-2007, 11:59 PM

Move it? Couldnt you just share the folder? Course you're going to want to duplicate it first anyway so perhaps copying it over is the right idea :)

Also - have you tried inflating it from the terminal's unzip command?

sharing the Folder - Sitting on Extended File System, due to size (4Gb limit on FAT32)

Terminal - nope, not yet. It did fail in Windows however :( Unarchiver has been "preparing to extract" way too long for my liking, so my guess is the archive is truly stuffed

LandyMan

14-02-2007, 12:01 AM

Crap:

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.

bwana

14-02-2007, 12:16 AM

easynews recommends pkzip for corrupt zip fils - http://www.pkware.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54&Itemid=72

LandyMan

14-02-2007, 12:19 AM

Thanks for the tip bwana ... will have a go at it tomorrow, erm, later today :D

adsl3g

14-02-2007, 07:24 AM

Thanks for the tip bwana ... will have a go at it tomorrow, erm, later today :D

aargh... hope you come right. I never zip important files - rather copy them to an external as they are - I have also had some nasties from packed files.

Let us know how it turns out.

LandyMan

14-02-2007, 03:56 PM

Damn, not even pkzip or pkzipfix can open the file :(

LandyMan

15-02-2007, 08:47 AM

So I found another program to fix the zip file - didn't have time yesterday to run it through the complete 8Gb file. That being said, it doesn't look good ... in the 40 odd minutes it was running, it identified 293 files, of which only 37 could be salvaged ... I hope 5 of the 37 are my mail archives :)

bwana

15-02-2007, 08:58 AM

Good luck - remember 27 is better than 0 :o

LandyMan

15-02-2007, 10:46 AM

Good luck - remember 27 is better than 0 :o

Yes it is indeed ... but the success rate is drastically reducing ... 5888 files, usable = 349 :(

bwana

15-02-2007, 10:52 AM

What did the zipping initially?

LandyMan

15-02-2007, 10:59 AM

What did the zipping initially?

Stuffit

Skeptik

15-02-2007, 02:02 PM

Are you using an Intel Mac or legacy(;)) stuff?

LandyMan

15-02-2007, 02:17 PM

Intel MBP

Skeptik

15-02-2007, 02:20 PM

Just thinking laterally here .... is it running natively? ... coz the intel machines have Apple's own compressor and you don't need stuffit. Possibly try a PPC machine and see if you have some joy.

LandyMan

15-02-2007, 02:29 PM

It is busted on Mac OS X, Windows XP native and Windows XP in Parallels on said MBP. I reckon the file is pretty much buggered all round :(

Skeptik

15-02-2007, 02:41 PM

Not a "PC" - a PPC Mac - Old Mac with a PowerPC

LandyMan

15-02-2007, 02:50 PM

Not a "PC" - a PPC Mac - Old Mac with a PowerPC

Erm, understood as such ... don't see the point though. From the recovery program, almost 90% of the files are useless to me now. Doubt a PPC is going to make any difference, plus, I don't have one or know anyone with one

bwana

15-02-2007, 03:24 PM

StuffitYou used stuffitup to compress instead of the built in archive app?

Oohps :o

LandyMan

15-02-2007, 03:46 PM

You used stuffitup to compress instead of the built in archive app?

Oohps :o

Hmm, not exactly. I used the built in Archiver, and Stuffit Expander to try and extract it again, which failed along with XP's built in expander, pkzip, pkzipfix and unarchiver.

I think it got broken with all the movement between Mac OS X and FAT32 partitions, particularly the time it bombed out 'cause of the 4Gb limitation ...

bwana

15-02-2007, 03:49 PM

So, why'd you zip it in the first place? All those eggs in such a poor basket.

Now if I was going to do it . . . . .

LandyMan

15-02-2007, 03:51 PM

So, why'd you zip it in the first place? All those eggs in such a poor basket.

Now if I was going to do it . . . . .

Yeah yeah ... 'cause unzipped it was just over 25Gb iirc, it being mostly documents with alot of scope for compression

bwana

15-02-2007, 03:57 PM

Yeah yeah ... 'cause unzipped it was just over 25Gb iirc, it being mostly documents with alot of scope for compressionDid you consider a compressed disk image?

LandyMan

15-02-2007, 04:04 PM

Did you consider a compressed disk image?

Yes I did, but with my limited knowledge about Mac OS at that point in time, I decided to go for the (more known to myself) zip route ... Hindsight is always 20-20 :(

bwana

15-02-2007, 05:55 PM

Yes I did, but with my limited knowledge about Mac OS at that point in time, I decided to go for the (more known to myself) zip route ... Hindsight is always 20-20 :(I had a encrypted sparse image once that I used to keep my emails on - boy was that a mistake.

I now use a normal encrypted 4gb disk image and havent had a problem yet. Also a convenient size for backing up :)

Apparently its a common problem with sparse images which is why I wont use File Vault.