Can't extract large .zip file

@cherilynn1030 posted that she couldn't extract files from a large (32GB) zip file. unzip -t reported "End-of-central-directory signature not found", so she concluded the file was corrupted.

I REALLY hope you haven't deleted the file. I have had the same issue while backing up files and have found that the version of unzip on my 2015 MacBook Pro will report this error for any file over 4GB. But the zip files are NOT corrupted!

The workaround is to run zipsplit -n 3000000000 on the file to break it into small zip files of < 4GB. Each of these files will then be unzippable.

The only issue I've found is that zip split won't work if the zip file contains a single file that is larger than the split size (3GB in the example above) - but that shouldn't be a problem for a photo archive.

I hope that works for you :-)