Stuffit Expander stuffed?

LandyMan

LandyMan

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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
 
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 :D
 
LandyMan said:
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 :D
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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?
 
bwana said:
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?
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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
 
Crap:

Terminal unzip said:
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.
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Thanks for the tip bwana ... will have a go at it tomorrow, erm, later today :D
 
LandyMan said:
Thanks for the tip bwana ... will have a go at it tomorrow, erm, later today :D
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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.
 
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 :)
 
Good luck - remember 27 is better than 0 :o
 
What did the zipping initially?
 
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.
 
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 :(
 
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