7z Windows Unzip
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The default unzipping functionality in Windows cannot, for whatever reason, unzip Kibana. It times out when I try it and I've seen others have the same problem. I've never had this issue with anything besides Kibana, so I'm pretty confident the problem is with Kibana.
I have a big zip file (approximately 650 MB) that I want to unzip. I already shortened the name of the zip file to just 1 letter and stored it directly on the C: folder. So I cant shorten the path anymore. However I get thousands of error saying that the path is longer than 260 letters. What can I do?
Alternatively, try using 7zip to pack (and unpack) your path-length sensitive files. I've used it to transport several IDE installations (those Eclipse plugin paths, yikes!) and piles of autogenerated documentation and haven't had a single problem so far.
IMPORTANT NOTE: For this to work properly, you'll need to specify the destination path in the 7zip "Extract" dialog directly, rather than dragging & dropping the files into the intended folder. Otherwise the "Temp" folder will be used as an interim cache and you'll bounce into the same 260 char limitation once Windows Explorer starts moving the files to their "final resting place". See the replies to this question for more information.
Both of these work, indeed it would appear using a similar approach (powershell using .Copyhere). However both of them appear to require that the source zip file is located on a local drive. The reidmv/unzip README says this :-source
The fully-qualified path to the zip file to extract. This file must already exist on the system; that is, it cannot be a remote URL. You can use pget or another resourceThe zip file that I want to use is on a network share (actually while I'm testing its a sync folder in Vagrant, but will be on a network share when I move beyond this stage). When I use that location in the source, the module doesn't fail or error, it just doesn't unzip any of the files. If I move the file locally it works correctly. The same behaviours is true for the counsel/puppet-windows module.Is this a constraint of powershell or is there something else at play here ?Is there another way that I can unzip a file that is not located on the local machine (I would prefer not to have to install 7zip or similar if possible, but I will if that's the only way) ?Here is the command used in the reidmv/unzip module (it's wrapped into an Exec resource) :-exec "unzip $source to $dest":
command => "\$sh=New-Object -COM Shell.Application;\$sh.namespace((Convert-Path '$dest')).Copyhere(\$sh.namespace((Convert-Path '$source')).items(), 16",
creates => $creates,
provider => powershell
Recipient of my email says that he cannot unzip my attachment. I am on a Mac. He is on a Windows machine. When I attached several documents to my email, Outlook asked me if I wanted to zip the attachments. I clicked "yes." Now the recipient says that his IT staff say that they cannot unzip my zipped file because I zipped it in Mac.
Try this, but also try opening the file sent to yourself to make sure you can actually open the file on the Mac. If you let Outlook compress it, then who knows what Microsoft used to compress the file (even with Zip files there can be multiple methods of compression -- some of which may not be available by default on certain systems -- even Windows). I compressed files which I stored on Sharepoint and somehow those files don't work when downloaded again.
FWIW, I compressed a folder of files and attached the zipped file to an email. I mailed it to my Windows 10 install. I have no problem unzipping the file. You could try zipping the files first then attaching it to an email rather than having Outlook do it.
There might be something on the Receives side. As was mentioned the receive IT Department is in play. They may have issues with the .zip extension and not allowing anything or files with that specific extension to be manipulated in their environment.
There are other zip utilities what may give the option to make a .zipx and thus bypass the interference. The only down side it the receive must be using a De-zipping Utility that will understand the extension.
Windows will now begin unzipping the files. The time it takes to extract the files depends on the size and amount of files. Once the process is complete, the unzipped files will appear in a folder in the chosen destination.
I can mv the file and flip the \ to / easily enough in a script, but then there are errors that the destination path directories do not exist. My workaround for now is to mkdir -p the paths (after converting \ to /) and then cp the files to those paths.
This handles files in any directory under the directory from where the program is started. Given the problem that you describe, the unzip_dir probably doesn't have any subdirectories to start with, and the program could just walk over the files in the current directory only.
This is just an update of @anton's answer which includes fixes by @madmuffin (FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists and missing os module import), a fix for python 3 (SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print') and a fix for the missing errno module import (NameError: name 'errno' is not defined).
I had the same problem yesterday:I had downloaded a Windows driver containing paths with a backslash ("") as path separator. For installing Windows on my Linux machine I needed to unzip this file to a usb file using Linux, but Linux refused to do so due to invalid paths. The above solutions didn't work for me (I can't really tell why).
For extracting any compression types other than .zip, the PowerShellCommunityExtensions (PSCX) Module is required. This module (in conjunction with PSCX) has the ability to recursively unzip files within the src zip file provided and also functionality for many other compression types. If the destination directory does not exist, it will be created before unzipping the file. Specifying rm parameter will force removal of the src file after extraction.
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Info-ZIP can be reached by a web-based form, but you'll have to read ourFrequently Asked Questions page to find out how.Our two primary web sites are hosted by our very own Hunter Goatley and bythe most excellent SourceForge.Secondary distribution sites are hosted by the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network.
In addition, Info-ZIP would like to tip our collective hat toSamuel H. Smith, thegentleman who wrote the original MS-DOS unzip on which Info-ZIP'sUnZip 3.0 was based--and who kindly made the source code availablefor free. Even though virtually all of his code has by now been rewrittenfrom scratch, Info-ZIP still owes Mr. Smith a debt of gratitude for gettingus into this mess. A package of virtual chocolate-chip cookies is in the e-mail.
Hey guys im having a problem opening folders I have downloaded from dropbox. I have since deleted it from dropbox (so cant try reloading the files). I have tried opening it 3 on different computers and im getting the same message. I tried using both windows 7 and windows 8.1
How big is this Zip file? Dropbox is known to have problems creating Zip files larger than 1GB or so. If you're using the built-in Zip support that Windows has, I would try a program like WinRAR, 7Zip or WinZip. Otherwise you may be out of luck.
Same here. Only, my compressed folders are from 1 to 116 MB. Not very large... I can't open any of the files when extracted, all broken. Pictures, txt files, pdf files, html files, mp3 files, nothing opens...
A strange thing happed to me... I've kept the broken zip archives - and they all work now, four weeks later. I changed my OS in the meantime (Mint to Ubuntu) but I don't know if that made any difference... I tried extracting one file at a time and all at once and it works, no problems whatsoever. Maybe you should try extracting one file at a time from the broken archive or something like that, or change the OS xD
Thanks so much for this answer. It worked for me and i have recovered hundreds of photos from my travels. If you are ever in nz let me know and i will buy you a beer!
Big shout out to mactorque who sorted it for me since i can hardly even turn a Mac on!
Its crazy that dropbox was not able to help with this issue.
Before you posted this I managed to get in touch with dropbox customer support which took a bit of hunting! However they repeatedly told me the fault was my doing, didn't believe what was happening to me and offered no solution!
Thanks so much!