Upgraded to MacOS Catalina and now I cannot unzip any zipped file. I had no problems before. Also, moving the file or redownloading is not fixing it. Multiple files of different sizes failed. MacBook user here.
MacBook
The bug is in the Archive Utility provided with MacOS Catalina.
I have used "The Unarchiver" app downloaded from the App Store. Worked like a charm!
It asks you during unarchiving to choose the encoding for the characters causing the Archive Utility to crash.
mine works fine with .zip files
i used Apples archive tool and have zero "3rd party apps" installed. worked one click no problem: it created a folder right next to the file for me to browse into (NOTE: your new filesystem is not case sensitive - keep in mind some archives cannot extract correctly if they are from a case sensitive OS and or try to set OS bits on files)
you've may have installed a 3rd party "multi-archive aware" app that "changed the arguments to zip". it is not the "freeware zip" and does not have the same arguments. also "freeware" apps might use "high" compression methods that apple's doesn't have (meaning and old GPL linux or pkzip .zip file does work in Catalina)
just change the plist or icon for zip so there is no argument mismatch ?
I had the same issue just earlier.
I just downloaded a random free zip online and installed it, then changed the file title to random English letters. It's unzipped now.
unzip error 22: invalid argument
