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WinZIP
« on: Thursday 19 October 17 01:36 BST (UK) »
I have a situation where i cannot extract ZIP file with the help of WinZIP. It gives me an error like:
The archive was empty

What's the problem? What should I do?

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Re: WinZIP
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 19 October 17 03:28 BST (UK) »
Welcome to RootsChat!

Can you ask whoever sent it to you, to send it again?  Tell them the message.

If it's one you zipped yourself then maybe you missed a step.  Happened to me once  ::)

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Re: WinZIP
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 19 October 17 15:33 BST (UK) »
Try another zip program like 7zip - that sometimes works.
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Re: WinZIP
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 24 October 17 20:49 BST (UK) »
Try with winrar or 7 zip. But if is real damaged you can check the link with information that can help you solve this problem: https://www.fixtoolbox.com/zipfix.html

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Re: WinZIP
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 24 October 17 21:25 BST (UK) »
Hi

WELCOME to Rootschat!

Some developers actually try very hard to get error messages correctly matching the situation.

[ Admittedly, some do not ]

How about believing the message that the file is actually empty?

What is the actual size of the zip file?
 
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