Opening files problem

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Opening files problem

Hi everybody, i got a problem to open .zip, .exe and other kind of files like these from internet and says: A problem has occured while opening the file " name of the file " : the data are corrupted.

This message appears for every file that i wanna open. then i have the choice to exit or to continue. If I continue, it asks me to choose an encoding of the file's name to open the archive's one.

PLEASE help me. This problem comes every time download something from internet...

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Mar 22, 2014 2:33 PM

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Linc Davis

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Mar 22, 2014 3:28 PM in response to Spark Snow

From the Safari menu bar, select

Help ▹ Installed Plug-ins

Besides the following, what plugins are listed?

iPhotoPhotocast
Java
QuickTime
Shockwave Flash
WebKit built-in PDF (absent in OS X 10.9 and later)

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Spark Snow Author

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Mar 23, 2014 12:55 AM in response to Linc Davis

Hello, here's the plug-ins that are in your list and my plug-ins list ( i didn't wrote all of them, just those you asked me if i had them ) :

- Java Applet Plug-in

- QuickTime Plug-in 7.7.3

- Shockwave Flash

- Shockwave for Director

( I copied/paste the plug-ins title )

Sorry if you do not understand what im writing, because i'm french... ^^

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Linc Davis

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Mar 23, 2014 6:37 AM in response to Spark Snow

Do you get the same error with all downloaded files, or only with some? If only some, what kinds? Which application are you using to open the files?

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Spark Snow Author

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Mar 23, 2014 7:19 AM in response to Linc Davis

hum, i don't download files every days, but i recently tried to download War Thunder ( yes i took care if it was the OSX version 🙂 ) that already run on my mac but that i had deleted. I also tried to download basical software but i didn't intalled them because of this problem.

this problem appears with all kind of files: .zip .gz .rar . exe...

Hum i'm using "the unarchiver" "default"

do you want some screenshot when this problem occures?

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