Unable to extract zip file

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I am not able to extract the zip files(Google Photos) downloaded from Google Takeout. I am getting this error message:

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> unzip takeout-20240315T091325Z-001.zip

Archive: takeout-20240315T091325Z-001.zip

End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not

a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the

latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on

the last disk(s) of this archive.

unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of takeout-20240315T091325Z-001.zip or

takeout-20240315T091325Z-001.zip.zip, and cannot find takeout-20240315T091325Z-001.zip.ZIP, period.

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Tried all the methods mentioned in the community discussion forum, but still did not yield any results.

Anyone, please feel free to help me out with this.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 14.4

Posted on Mar 15, 2024 9:45 PM

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Answer 1

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The problem is exactly what it says. Unzip can't find the line of code that signals the end of the archive, so either:

The archive is corrupt.
It is not a .zip archive.
There is more than one part in the file, but that doesn't seem possible to me. You should also try other mirror, in my instance using WinRAR on the same file worked.

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