Hello all;
I have a 2017 MacBook pro - running High Sierra v. 10.13.3.
I have a very large zip file, (32GB - all photos) that I cannot open. I get the following error:
Unable to archive "Camera Uploads.zip" into "Camera Uploads.zip.cpgz". (Error 27 - File too large.)
Please forgive me - I have googled until I'm blue in the face, and I just can't figure this out. I'm worried I'm going to lose all those pictures....
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
using that method: here is my output... (I removed the entire path from below and used "...." to show output)
Also to note; I have tried The Unarchiver and Keka to no avail....
I'm guessing I'm corrupt. I'm crushed.
Cheris-MBP:~ cherilwyman$ unzip (pasted file as instructed)
Archive: .....Camera Uploads.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.
note: .....Camera Uploads.zip may be a plain executable, not an archive
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of .....Camera Uploads.zip or
.....Camera Uploads.zip.zip, and cannot find ......Camera Uploads.zip.ZIP, period.
using that method: here is my output... (I removed the entire path from below and used "...." to show output)
Also to note; I have tried The Unarchiver and Keka to no avail....
I'm guessing I'm corrupt. I'm crushed.
Cheris-MBP:~ cherilwyman$ unzip (pasted file as instructed)
Archive: .....Camera Uploads.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.
note: .....Camera Uploads.zip may be a plain executable, not an archive
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of .....Camera Uploads.zip or
.....Camera Uploads.zip.zip, and cannot find ......Camera Uploads.zip.ZIP, period.
In the Finder, click once on your huge zip file, and then press the option key while you right-click on the file. Choose the menu entry: Copy “zipfilename” as Path. This will go on your clipboard as a UNIX file path.
Launch the Terminal application. (Dock : Launchpad : Other : Terminal). On the command line, enter the following:
unzip -tq cmd-v
You are pasting the zipfile path from the clipboard behind the unzip command which will not unzip the zipfile, but will test it for errors. You are hoping for the following output:
No errors detected in compressed data of source.zip.
If there are errors detected, you may never be able to extract the images from the zip archive.
Ordinarily, you could just double-click on a zipfile and macOS would just unzip it. You may need to fetch the free The Unarchiver application from the Mac App Store, and give it a try.
All Windows apps, but a great find nonetheless. Just needs a PC to give some of those a try.
I found a Mac app that attempt the same sort of thing:
https://echoone.com/filejuicer/ Cost item, but can be run as a demo.
Terminal instructions that will attempt to pull what it can from a corrupt .zip file into a new one:
https://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-repair-damaged-zip-files-with-te rminal--mac-49294
The main part of the Terminal link being the command:
zip -F broke.zip --out pleasework.zip
Replace broke.zip with your corrupt .zip file name and pleasework.zip with whatever output name you want.
There's a $20 App Store utility that tries to repair/recover .zip files, but I would almost anything from it's very simple interface that all it does it run the Terminal command from the above link in the background.
How was the zip file created in the first place. I'm not aware of a limitation on the size of a zip file using the functionality built into macOS, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. You may need to use a 3rd party utility to extract it.
I honestly cannot tell you (remember, is the more correct term...) It was from photos ~2014.... I'm fearful that the file is corrupt..... 😢
I just don't know what else to do, before I consider it GONE....
The error isn't from trying to extract the files, the message says it's trying to create yet another archive type. That is, compressing a compressed file.
It's a problem that appears every so often with the built-in Archiver Utility. As you'll see at the linked page, even if it finished, you'd be caught in a loop of .zip to .cpgz to .zip, etc.
Try some of other recommended methods to open the .zip file.
I have 763 GB remaining. (I have 1TB of space)
Sounds to me like you might not have enough free space on the drive to extract the contents of the zip file.
It's corrupt.
😢😢😢
😠
Thank you...I truly appreciate your time helping me. What a bummer.
I wouldn't be desperate. Try to unzip with a non Apple utility
Already has.
I have tried The Unarchiver and Keka to no avail....
Game over, then :(
Yes. game over.
(and I had also tried using windows to extract - no go.)
Again, truly appreciate all the help.
Could be worth a try (at least as a suggestion for other ways to follow):
www.raymond.cc/blog/repair-damaged-or-corrupted-zip-archive/
Can't extract large .zip file
