Winzip And Winrar Issues

[webgyrl]

Hi gang,

 

Just wondering if anyone knows a work around for this. I noticed lately when i try to unzip my cPanel backups that I run into corrupted archive warnings. I have a feeling this is because the filenames are so long.

 

I *thought* I had backups of all our site files, but this turns out not to be true because i can't unzip them using either WinRAR or WinZip. I keep getting archive corrupt messages.

 

Does anyone know how I can rescue my site backups?

 

Thanks!

[TCH-Don]

You might try TotalCommander to unzip the files.

Just navigate to the file and double click it to view inside or select and then use the file menu to unzip to the other window.

[TCH-Andy]

I assume you have tried to fix a copy of them in winzip and winRAR.

 

Since they were created on Linux - it may be worth trying to extract them there. Have you tried uploading one and then uncompressing it using the cpanel file manager?

 

Alternatively - do a quick google on "advanced zip repair" and pick up a trial copy of the program.

[webgyrl]

You might try TotalCommander to unzip the files.

Just navigate to the file and double click it to view inside or select and then use the file menu to unzip to the other window.

 

Don,

 

I will give this a try.

 

What I think the problem is is this:

I have lots of folders on my local drive. For all our web sites I have this set up

Drive D

Web Sites

each site name has it's own folder

I have in "sitefolder name" a BACKUPS folder in the backups folder I have a folder called "Complete Backups"

 

so it's like this

D:\\Web Sites\sitename\backups\complete backups

 

I am thinking maybe when i go to extract it doesn't work well

 

What's funny is that I grab backups of my Joomla sites from Joomla and I don't know why, but these ones unzip OK.

 

I'll go get the info on Total Commander

 

Thank You!

[webgyrl]

I assume you have tried to fix a copy of them in winzip and winRAR.

 

Since they were created on Linux - it may be worth trying to extract them there. Have you tried uploading one and then uncompressing it using the cpanel file manager?

 

Alternatively - do a quick google on "advanced zip repair" and pick up a trial copy of the program.

 

 

Andy,

 

What I did was to try to unzip the files different ways with winzip and winrar.. but no luck. If there is a fixer I missed, please let me know what to do or where to look.

 

I have not tried uploading them to the server actually. i was trying to unzip them here to get access to files locally on my own computer when i was dong a Joomla upgrade. Some of the files were modified and I wanted to grab the old files to compare them to the new Joomla files so that in case I overwrite a modified file I can go back to the old one and fix it all up.

 

I will google Advanced Zip Repair for sure.

 

Thanks!

[Deverill]

Heya Natt!!!

 

With Winrar select your .zip file and go to the menu Tools and under that is Repair Archive. That may work.

 

You may also try making D:\backuptest and unzip to that to see if it's a problem with being nested so deep, but I doubt that's it. Also, if you have another hard drive try unzipping to it in case your file allocation table is full - if you have drives formatted FAT. I'm reaching here but it's worth a try.

 

I too think your best bet is to unzip them in Linux but that doesn't get you what you need.

[jayson]

I use winrar for my backup, and have never had a problem

 

maybe try a new download of either winzip or winrar

Edited February 24, 2007 by jayson

[carbonize]

Or try 7-Zip or Izarc.