I just can't open Zip files on my mac?

[Banger]

I was sent an E-book it was big at around 900MB , i could load it up in PC un-zipped but you can imagine how much that took on my mac.

But when trying to open the Zip file which was for Mac i couldn't.

Is there anything i can download that perhaps my Mac has not got to open it. It seemed to download OK but i just could not open it?

Thanks

 

[ianf]

Is it a .zip or .gz extension on the file?

Are you ok in the terminal shell?

If so move the suspect file to your home dir, and open Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

then if it's a .gz file (single file, compressed) run:-
$ gzip -vt 20d.pdf.gz
20d.pdf.gz: OK

where you put in the appropriate name for the file.

or if it's a .zip archive (many files/dirs in 1 archive) run:-
$ unzip -vt documents2
Archive: documents2.zip
testing: Documents2/ OK
testing: Documents2/.DS_Store OK
testing: __MACOSX/ OK
testing: __MACOSX/Documents2/ OK
testing: __MACOSX/Documents2/._.DS_Store OK
testing: Documents2/.localized OK
testing: __MACOSX/Documents2/._.localized OK
testing: Documents2/.parallels-vm-directory/ OK
testing: Documents2/.parallels-vm-directory/Microsoft Windows XP OK
testing: Documents2/.parallels-vm-directory/Red Hat Enterprise Linux OK
<snip>
No errors detected in compressed data of documents2.zip.

This should tell you why it won't open...

 

[Fanum]

Get a PC

 

[judge]

unRARx has never let me down

Banger in the Shell - I've heard it all now

 

[robroy]

Also try www.zipeg.com

 

[Hubs]

Have a look at Stuffit Expander which has been a pretty standard decompressor on Macs for years and works with lots of formats.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/182

Having said that, in recent years, the OS has managed to unzip everything I've thrown at it, so it may be something else..

Try dragging the zipped file onto your desktop from the mail and double clicking it. That should get the OS to unzip it and place the unzipped file onto the desktop.

I have noticed that if I try to unzip files without putting them somewhere first ( in a folder or on the desktop) then it appears to unzip them, but I can't find the file. I suspect they get unzipped into the 'mail downloads' folder. Just checked, and that is what is happening.

If you go into 'macintosh HD' /Users/yourusername/library/mail downloads

you may find a whole series of unzipped copies of the file you are after.....

regards

Mark