I was trying to move the files to another hard drive. So I archived all my photos in one large ZIP file using the Mac OS X built-in compress function. But the file failed to extract. I've tried many programs, but none of the programs I tried were able to extract the file. I've tried Mac OS X's extract utility,, (command line), all failed. Mac's archive utility and StuffIt don't seem to support large files, and 7-Zip's command line version gave an error stating unsupported archive.

The built in Archive Utility tool in Mac OS will open the zip archive and extract the file(s), typically they are placed within a folder of the same name of the zip archive, minus the.zip file extension.

I have no luck in Windows either as many of my files have Chinese filenames, and couldn't extract to the correct name under Windows. Are there some programs that can support large files, can handle files compressed using Mac OS X's compress function, and can support UTF-8 filename? How to check for updates microsoft office mac. With or without GUI is fine. Update Well, I had made the wrong decision to compress the files, and it's already too late. I thought I should be able to extract the file if I could compress it.

It's too late, the original copies are gone, only a large ZIP file left here. I have tried using 'unzip', but it says End-of-central-directory signature not found.

I guess it doesn't have large file support as well. I would try the Windows Vista method as stated by SuperMagic, but I need to borrow a computer for that. Anyway, thank you everyone, but please provide more suggestions on what software that could possibly extract that file. I ran into this same problem recently, on OS X 10.6.6. I have been zipping my VMware VMs up at a command line, and copying them to backup media. When I tried to unzip a backed-up VM after a hardware failure, I had a few tense minutes as I wrestled with unzip's 'start of central directory not found; zipfile corrupt' error.

After some poking around, the problem turns out to be that OS X ships with v3.0 of Info-Zip's zip, which supports the Zip64 extensions and uses them automatically when needed (so I was creating Zip64 files without realizing it), but only v5.52 of Info-Zip's unzip, which doesn't support Zip64 - Zip64 support was added in unzip's v6.0. I have no idea why Apple didn't ship an unzip that matches the shipped zip, but I found two easy solutions: • MacPorts users can install unzip 6.0 using 'sudo port install unzip'. • The shareware archive utility BetterZip, which is a handy piece of software anyway, supports Zip64, so just by using that instead of the command line, I was able to extract my archived VM and continue my day.

I had exactly the same problem. Zipped a file with the standard mac archive software. Deleted the file. A month later tried to open the archive and got the same error --> Guess this has something with the fact that the file was over 1gb SO I tried all and more of the software above and nothing worked after a few weeks of searching and trying I found one that worked:) So I guess this is worth mentioning: The Unarchiver - I downloaded this from: these people are my new hero's:) It has the necessary things for broken or to large zipfiles.

Mac Archive Utility will unzip the file into: /Volumes/'Your Drive Name'/.TemporaryItems/folders.501/Cleanup At Startup/'Random Name E.g.: BAH.odJFh'/'archiveName' Then go ahead and start the un-archive and wait until you get the error, then leave the dialog box open. Open terminal window. Sudo su cd to the path above, remember you can type /Vo and hit tab to finish the word get as far as you can and do a ls to see what the ramdon directory names are change into the final directory where all your files are. Then type mv * /Volumes/'Drive Name'/.