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Zip Archives won't unarchive...

Hi Folks,


I'm in dire straits here. A couple of months ago I decided to compress some of my backups to conserve space on my external drive. I'm running OSX 10.7 and arching the folders didn't seem to be an issue at all. The OSX version of the zip archiver didn't throw any warnings or messages when these archives were created.


When I went back to try and unarchive them using the same utility it wouldn't work. Now, it throws an error to the effect:


Unable to expand "Archive.zip" in "Folder".

(Error 1 - Operation not permitted)


I've tried a number of solutions including the archive into another directory, playing with the permissions, running the zip utility in both 32- and 64-bit modes. I've even moved some of the archives to different versions of OSX and Windows and nothing seems to be working.


Can anyone shed light on this issue?


Thanks


Stefan

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1), 15" MBP, 11" MBA, Mini Lion Server

Posted on Mar 8, 2012 11:09 AM

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Posted on Mar 8, 2012 11:47 AM

Try Stuffit Exapander: http://www.stuffit.com/mac-expander.html

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Jul 19, 2014 8:40 PM in response to Stefan Lehmann

Hey, also I know it is while since your issue, but I've definitely run into this multiple times for all files. I seemed to also find the quickest shortcut to be:


Open the Terminal utility and after it opens type: unzip (and hit spacebar) , then just drag the file right into Terminal, press Enter and boom. file is unzipped! Hope this also helps for everyone as I have not had any major issues or if it wasn't a similar issue sorry!

Nov 25, 2014 6:31 PM in response to Siddharth0905

Exactly Siddharth0905. It's great that I can use The Unarchiver, but when I send a link to a zip file to a client and they can't open it right away, they are not happy. Explaining to them that they need to download some other program because the default Apple one doesn't work is not an option. Is there any way to force a zip file to work universally?

Zip Archives won't unarchive...

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