Timeline for Convert octet-stream to zip file
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| Oct 28, 2022 at 19:18 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 28, 2022 at 18:59 | comment | added | Bodo | A ZIP file has a directory structure as its end, and it should be able to extract its contents even if there is leading garbage before the ZIP compressed data. When the directory structure cannot be found it probably means that either the creation was not successful, maybe terminated prematurely, or that the file was damaged afterwards, e.g. during a file transfer. If this is the case, the best fix would be to create the ZIP file again. BTW: Please do not upload images of code/data/errors when asking a question. | |
| Oct 28, 2022 at 18:30 | answer | added | Paul_Pedant | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 16:51 | comment | added | user19192927 | @Paul_Pedant -i do not further classify regular files -I, --mime output MIME type strings (--mime-type and --mime-encoding). I am using file-5.41. So it doesn't seem the end of the world according to you. How would you fix this? | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 16:49 | comment | added | user19192927 | @RomeoNinov on windows -> right click on the folder -> add to archive | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 16:47 | comment | added | user19192927 | @StephenKitt i get the following : Archive: backup.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: backup.zip may be a plain executable, not an archive unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of backup.zip or backup.zip.zip, and cannot find backup.zip.ZIP, period. | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 8:22 | comment | added | Paul_Pedant |
The -I option is invalid on my Linux. What is your distro, and what does the man page say it does? Mine has a -i option which "emits mime-strings rather than human-readable ones". I suspect your file is a .zip, but you suppressed that information. If the contents of your folder were already compressed (e.g. images) then zip will not achieve significant reductions, so 50GB would be understandable.
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| Oct 27, 2022 at 6:45 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt |
What does unzip -l backup.zip say?
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| Oct 27, 2022 at 5:27 | comment | added | Romeo Ninov |
What command did you use to create the zip file?
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| Oct 27, 2022 at 4:04 | history | edited | user19192927 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Oct 27, 2022 at 4:01 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Oct 27, 2022 at 4:01 | history | asked | user19192927 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |