hi i have just changed my Web Site Hosting company, i rushed it a bit too much and didnt move my Files correctly, i do however have a 3 month old Back Up file containing ALL MY FILES on my MacBookPros Hard Drive, i tried to open it with UnArchiver but that says the file is incomplete, is that bad news or should i perhaps look for a different program to extract the files ?
tim
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), iPad 2, iPhone 4S
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press the space bar:
gzip -tv
Switch to the Finder and drag the archive into the Terminal window, then switch back to Terminal and press return.
Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot.
If any personal information appears in the output, edit before posting, but don’t remove the context.
Wow Linc, if that doesnt work i will eat my hat.
I am currently downloading another more selective BackUp file as i was thinking maybe that the first one was corrupted or summat, but it is taking simply hours, currently on 3gb and still going strong !!! i dont want to stop it NOW LOL.
tim
Ok Linc, the file i was trying to extract in the first place was horribly corrupted, i downloaded it again, double clicked on it and UnArchiver immediately popped up and extracted it all perfectly.
I was thinking that i had to get a specialist program to "unzip" it, but of course my Apple comes with ALL the tools required 🙂
tim
Just to be clear, that shell command doesn't fix anything. All it does is to tell you whether something is wrong with the archive.
how can i extract a tar.gz file
