I've got a .zip file of approx. 20GB. (20,497,570,063 bytes)
I am trying to uncompress it but both Archive Utility and Terminal are failing to do so.
Archive Utility is giving error 2 (no such file or directory).
When I execute the following command: unzip myfile.zip
it just stops at some point, while it says that there are some extra bytes when it starts.
When I do zipinfo
on this file, it says the same:
Archive: /Users/USERNAME/Desktop/pictures.zip 20497570063 8664
warning [/Users/USERNAME/Desktop/pictures]: 17179869184 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
When it's done unzipping the folder is only about 8GB or so big.
Does anyone of you happen to know how I can fix this or get all the pictures out of this zip file?
Best Answer
Perhaps you could try to follow the steps in this article: How to Repair Damaged Zip Files With Terminal and see if that helps you.
Essentially what the article says is that you can try with this command:
and if that doesn't work, make zip try even harder with