Zip File: Bad header. Recovery?

I am trying to unzip some pictures that I tried to compress on my phone. While I was zipping them, the Zip application crashed, and I believe that the header is either corrupted or wrong because all of the files were not written to the file. Using the Terminal command zipinfo, I get:
Archive: /Users/---/Desktop/Pics 1.zip 482241901 bytes 96 files
error [/Users/---/Desktop/Pics 1.zip]: missing 63176741 bytes in zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
error [/Users/---/Desktop/Pics 1.zip]: reported length of central directory is
63176741 bytes too long (Atari STZip zipfile? J.H.Holm ZIPSPLIT 1.1
zipfile?). Compensating...
-rw-rw-r-- 2.0 fat 3702433 b- defN 30-Apr-09 13:00 102NIKON/DSCN3330.JPG
-rw-rw-r-- 2.0 fat 3997882 b- defN 30-Apr-09 13:00 102NIKON/DSCN3331.JPG
-rw-rw-r-- 2.0 fat 3728756 b- defN 30-Apr-09 13:01 102NIKON/DSCN3332.JPG
-rw-rw-r-- 2.0 fat 3197382 b- defN 30-Apr-09 13:01 102NIKON/DSCN3333.JPG
error: expected central file header signature not found (file #5).
(please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly)

Is this repairable either by terminal command or software?
I have used --- for the username, for security reasons. Thanks for your help.

Jon

Late 2005, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Mac Mini

Posted on May 21, 2009 5:33 AM

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