Corrupt zip file

mjt · 10 Mar 2011 at 21:08

I've got a massive zip file full of pictures off a dropbox account.
I'm downloading the pictures while a friend's on holiday, and I've only just noticed that the file is corrupt.

What's weird though is that all the files are found during a winrar and an Adavanced RAR Repair repair, but it can't give me a repaired file, which sucks balls.

Is there anything I can do, or are these photos lost forever?

mjt · 10 Mar 2011 at 21:18

Yes, and all it does it load winrar which then says unexpected end of archive, or it just cannot open ...
I've tried repairing it in winrar again, and it locates all the files, but then stops and says it's corrupt.

Odd.

mjt · 11 Mar 2011 at 15:43

Anyone?

mjt · 11 Mar 2011 at 17:39

The issue here is that I can't download it again

FWIW, it's lots of pictures off Dropbox, which I downloaded at once, thereby culminating in a 2GB zip file.

Lost forever then I presume?

mjt · 14 Mar 2011 at 19:58

iDroid84 said:
Is it an already zipped up file or each pic seperate?

individual files into folders, all into one big zip

mjt · 15 Mar 2011 at 17:28

bledd. said:
I've gotta say, I would never zip up photos..

Assuming they're jpg, they won't compress well anyway

Salt in the wound, I know

Yeah, the only reason it's a zip is because Dropbox did it that way into one massive download.

Shame really as now as it's all gone.
What I don't understand is that it 'finds' the files during the repair but is unable to restore them :mad: