Corrupt .zip file

[Sly]

how can i fix this? all the files are in the zip but it wont let me extract them b/c it says its corrupt. what does a corrupt zip file mean and how can i fix it?

 

[aphextwin]

it means its ****ed....... i'd go find another fiele

 

[Sly]

but ive looked inside of the zip, and everything looks and seems fine to me. i just googled it and found that there are programs that can uncorrupt them, if thats possible. ill try

 

[x42bn6]

I think WinRAR can repair ZIPs and RARs. Can't remember.

 

[Sly]

ok, well i got a program that can fix corrupted zip files and it worked...but now the .exe file is corrupted also. im just gettting another file...seems easier

 

[borednerd]

i dunno i use winrar allt he time and i still get ****ed over,,unless if its a seperate function, i dunno

 

[tassadar920]

Corruption generally means you put into the zip files that could potentially run over onto other files inside the zip, (a zip is really just squashed information, and if you have 6000 files all squashed together its highly likely that one or two could leak into others in the extraction process)

Make sure to have backups of any important files before zipping them. If you got this off the net, try searching download.com for it, they generally don't zip or if they do they check for corruption.

Winrar rarely corrupts things, but i don't think it can un-corrupt.

Also, try going back to a previous version of winzip, the older, the slower but less corrupting.