.zip corrupted on Mac

Question

I've got a .zip file of approx. 20GB. (20,497,570,063 bytes)

I am trying to uncompress it but both Archive Utility and Terminal are failing to do so. Archive Utility is giving error 2 (no such file or directory).

When I execute the following command: unzip myfile.zip it just stops at some point, while it says that there are some extra bytes when it starts.

When I do zipinfo on this file, it says the same:

Archive:  /Users/USERNAME/Desktop/pictures.zip   20497570063   8664
warning [/Users/USERNAME/Desktop/pictures]:  17179869184 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)

When it's done unzipping the folder is only about 8GB or so big.

Does anyone of you happen to know how I can fix this or get all the pictures out of this zip file?

Solution

Perhaps you could try to follow the steps in this article: How to Repair Damaged Zip Files With Terminal and see if that helps you.

Essentially what the article says is that you can try with this command:

zip -F myBrokenArchive.zip --out hopefullyRepairedArchive.zip

and if that doesn't work, make zip try even harder with

zip -FF myBrokenArchive.zip --out hopefullyRepairedArchive.zip

Comments

[Jeroen]

I had the same zip on another harddrive and that one didn't seem to be corrupted. So it's fixed anyway. But thanks for replying, I will use this in the future when I got a similar problem !

[Jesper]

Good to hear that! An uncorrupted zip file definitely beats a repaired one. :-)