I Can 39;t Extract Files

1 view

Skip to first unread message

Carin Mita

unread,

Aug 3, 2024, 12:20:03 PM8/3/24

to orberworlsung

I have 2TB of available storage on my Dropbox account, but am unable to open a ZIP file (approx. 3.2GB) -- instead, I'm getting an error message that says "Couldn't extract files. Can only handle files up to 512 MB." Any thoughts on how best to resolve this? Thanks.

Did this post not resolve your issue? If so please give us some more information so we can try and help - please remember we cannot see over your shoulder so be as descriptive as possible!

I actually CAN'T download a file onto my local computer because there is no fixed Internet where I live (center of Chicago) and I am forced to use cell data for everything. So that solution doesn't work for me. Especially as I would have to download and then upload the uncompressed data afterwards. Just one file would kill off my entire quota of transfer for the month.

I get the same error message - no useful information, no details as to why. I'm personally trying to extract a 1.3GB zip file and wonder if there is a hidden max file size. If so, why is it not made clear in the error?

Since Windows 11 has native file compression and extraction support, you no longer need third-party tools to zip and unzip files. However, although Windows 11 simplifies file extraction, it may not always go as smoothly as expected.

The first thing you should do is try extracting another ZIP file on your PC and see if it works. This will help you determine whether the problem lies with the particular ZIP file you are currently working with or if there is a more widespread issue with Windows' file extraction functionality.

If you don't experience any issues while extracting another ZIP file, the original one you are having trouble with may be damaged. If you need help fixing it, check our guide on how to repair a corrupted ZIP archive in Windows. That said, if the issue is consistent with all the ZIP files, continue with the fixes below.

If you lack the necessary permissions to access a specific directory on Windows, you might have trouble extracting ZIP files to that directory. To get around this, extract your ZIP file to a different directory. Pick a location with the appropriate permissions and see if the extraction completes successfully.

Since Windows' file extraction support is quite basic, you'll likely encounter occasional problems. Luckily, there's no shortage of third-party file extraction apps for Windows. 7-Zip is one such file extraction tool you can download and use to unzip files.

With any luck, one or more of the above fixes should help you resolve the underlying issue, and you should be able to unzip files as before. However, if none of the solutions prove effective, you can use a free online service to extract your ZIP files.

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.

MiniTool OEM program enable partners like hardware / software vendors and relative technical service providers to embed MiniTool software with their own products to add value to their products or services and expand their market.

If you delete some important files by mistake, you can use MiniTool Power Data Recovery to get them back. This data restore tool can help you recover files from hard drives, SSDs, USB flash drives, memory cards, and more.

If the ZIP file is protected with a password, you will need to enter the correct password to extract its contents. Ensure you have the correct password, and make sure that Caps Lock is not accidentally turned on, as passwords are case-sensitive.

Windows has built-in ZIP file extraction capabilities, but sometimes third-party extraction software may be set as the default program for handling ZIP files. If this is the case, it could lead to extraction problems. To change this, right-click on the ZIP file, select Open with and choose Windows Explorer as the default program. Try extracting the file again.

You can also use the Check File System feature in MiniTool Partition Wizard to do the same job. This is a professional free partition manager, which also has other useful features like creating/deleting/formatting/wiping/merging/extending partitions.

I have been struggling with this for a while. I got some published data and it appears to be in the map format from bowtie. I have converted it to SAM file using samtools' bowtie2sam.pl script from the misc directory.

The only thing I really care about is trying to get total read counts out of the data, over a specified region. But again haven't got to that yet. So any ideas on how to extract read count and this BAM issue would be great.

It sounds like the reference genome you use in converting the SAM (arabidopsis.fa) doesn't match the one used to generate the alignments. Check it to be sure. The chromosome names in in.sam should be present and exactly match those given in the reference FASTA file that you use later.

Are you sure you need to run samtools view with the -T option? But yeah, doublecheck that the chromosome names in your reference file match the chromosome names in your .bam. And doublechecking that the reference index was made properly, by remaking it with samtools faidx, and seeing if that throws an error, wouldn't hurt either.

My reference had pure numbers and SAM files had Chr prefix. The *.fai file also doesn't have reference to Mitochondria and Cytoplasmic? mappings do all the read from them go unmapped. I have updated my local copy of reference to have Chr prefixes and it works. Thanks though.

Neither of the two files are in read-only, and I tried running cmd as admin and setting ArchiveTool to always run in admin and using it with cmd as admin.
But nothing worked, and I have no idea what to do

I basically replicated how you are doing yours. I moved to a folder off the Desktop and I used the basic command prompt this time instead of Powershell. I was able to get it to extract just fine. More than once.

I would to extract some .zip files with Ark but doesn't do. I have tried to download another .zip archive of source code and it worked. But with those archives that I have recently downloaded, nothing.
And p7zip seems doesn't do anything.
I thought that the archives was corrupted, but in Windows I can extract them.

Hi all,
I'm experiencing the same problem. Ark does not extract 7z files protected with a password.
extracting it asks for password but seems it does not extract anything.
Everything works using the command line as Chuck Arch Linux said.

I've put together a small custom modpack for use by a few friends of mine. The mod pack it's self works just fine if manually installed, but if I try installing it through the technic launcher, it downloads just fine, but when it gets to 44% mod installation, it freezes and throws an unable to extract file error. I've followed the "how to make a modpack" and "how to make your pack available through technic launcher" tutorials and don't see anywhere I've gone in error.

I've gone through and tested the zip file it's self, I can find no errors with the zip file or the files contained in it. I can manually extract the files into the install folder it is trying to place them into and play the pack just fine as well. The launcher just can't extract all the files from the zip file...

ok... ran the test, got unhandled exception error, and malformed. That's it. no idea what I'm supposed to do with this info or how i'm supposed to fix the problem when the zip file opens just fine, just not through the launcher.

Tried making a new zip file. same issue. tried redownloading and installing every mod in the pack, pulling out the config files, mod files, and forge, then repacking them into a zip file again. same issue. tried changing the zip file compression ratio and settings for 7-zip. once again same issue...

Edit: found the issue. Both the technic launcher and your checker file do not like the Millenaire mod. If I remove the mod and it's associated files, the zip checks out clean, when I add them back in, it throws an error... without millenaire, the modpack is basicly useless...

Try removing and re-extracting the Millenaire mod. I did that and was able to get your pack working by replacing the modpack archive downloaded by the Launcher. The issue is that the Launcher doesn't like one of the file name characters inside the /mods/millenaire/languages/ folder.

Yes i am sure, as no new file/folder containing the archived data is created, plus what has always happened before is the extraction info is shown in the notification area of the KDE bar, like whenever you copy files/folders.

And it works fine here with KDE 4.11.4.
So maybe there was a problem regarding this in 4.11.3 that got fixed?
4.11.4 should be released as update for openSUSE 13.1 soon anyway, so maybe it will work then for you again as well.

One thing I wanted to mention as well but forgot:
Are you using the proprietary nvidia driver by chance?
The current versions (331.20 f.e.) have a bug that cause some interesting problems:
_bug.cgi?id=858421