Archive Utility Freezes

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Archive Utility Freezes

I was unzipping a normal (not password protected) Windows .zip file and the Archive Utility completed 99% and then froze. Cancel is not an option, and it is not on the Force Quit menu, so I had to restart to get rid of it hovering on top of all my other windows. I could unzip other files while this one was sitting there, but I was not able to delete the file being unzipped nor could I close the utility. I just don't want this happening again, so any ideas?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Dec 30, 2007 5:50 PM

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Henry G4

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Dec 30, 2007 5:53 PM in response to redex

Hi.

The file could be corrupted...

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redex Author

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Dec 30, 2007 5:56 PM in response to Henry G4

That's what I thought. After I restarted the completely unzipped file was just sitting there where it was supposed to be and the zip was in the Trash from when I tried deleting it before.

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Calen

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Feb 17, 2008 2:14 AM in response to redex

I have had this same problem for three days now. Restarting has not fixed the problem, and the Archive Utility doesn't show up in the force-quit window or in the Utilities Activity Monitor. How do I kill it, at least? It has gotten to the point that even zips that are not sound files refuse to open (read: school projects), and restarting over and over is a pain.

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Calen

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Feb 17, 2008 2:42 AM in response to Calen

Why does the edit function take me to the login page?

Anyway, in Terminal type "cd Desktop" (without the quotes), or wherever your zips are, and hit enter. Then type "unzip <filename>", where <filename> is the name of the zip file (plus extension). Should work like a charm.

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redex Author

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Mar 14, 2008 6:56 PM in response to Calen

Thanks, that does open my files, but I was hoping that there'd be an easier way to get rid of the Archive window without restarting...

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Mar 26, 2008 2:18 PM in response to redex

Same thing just happened to me. Is there any way to dismiss the stuck window without restarting?

I was attempting to move a group of zip files from one folder to another, but my hand slipped & apparently created a double click, and the batch started to open into pdf files. Apparently the last file got stuck in process.

There should be a Preference to enable a confirmation before the task begins.

& how come Apple key-period no longer stops tasks in progress?

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Apr 20, 2008 9:55 PM in response to redex

I found an answer for this, thought I'd share it with you:

To close Archive Utility, open Activity Monitor (in Applications > Utilities) and find the stuck processes that looks like BOMArchiveUtility, or so, and stop it manually. You should restart afterwards, just to be safe, but it might be sufficient to restart Finder or log out/in.

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BDAqua

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Apr 21, 2008 12:02 PM in response to figueblanck

Nice 1st post, welcome to the discussions! 🙂

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redex Author

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Jul 5, 2008 5:38 PM in response to figueblanck

Thanks a lot for getting back to me with that, and sorry I didn't get back to you sooner but I wasn't checking back as often as I should have.

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