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hamidi
Asked: 2017-09-26 05:46:45 +0800 CST

Can't extract a large zip file

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System says my zip file is okay, but I can't extract it through unzip. I think maybe because it's such a large file (34 GB) that unzip might not support it.

Is there a way to get this to work?

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4 Answers

  1. I just extracted a 13GB file. I was unable to unzip it using the extract tool, right clicking on the file (I'm in KDE, so this is dolphin). I ran into a similar error, where it said that "The archive you're trying to open is corrupt. Some of the files may be missing or damaged.". Instead I used dtrx from the command line, and it worked on the first try.

    To install dtrx I typed: sudo apt-get install dtrx

    To run the extraction I typed dtrx filename.zip with no flags.

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  2. I think your file download is incomplete. From here it says:

    For reference purposes, with the Zip64 extension to the Zip file format enhancement, Zip files of 16 exabytes, which is over 16 billion gigabytes (or 2 to the 64th power bytes) are possible. Likewise, over 4 billion files and folders can be included in a Zip file.

    Please check the integrity of your zip file with: zip -T name_of_zip_file.zip, an OK is expected if download was complete. And current Ubuntu 64bit has zip64 capability already compiled into your zip tool. Check that with zip -v

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  3. Using the java archiver (as suggested here) did the trick for me. The syntax is as follows:

    jar xvf file.zip
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  4. say, did you try all the other unpackers which are available ? there is also p7zip, b1 Archiver (snap store) and more..

    i have had couple of zips rars and so forth sometime, which did not or did not correctly unpack, in case this happens i simply switch to use another unzipper/unpacker for the file.

    (it sometimes helps)

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