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disappearing files within a zip file
Thread poster: Heike Behl, Ph.D.
Heike Behl, Ph.D.
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Ireland
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English to German
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Aug 6, 2004

Has this ever happened to you?

I downloaded a zip file of almost 10 MB with 35 files from a client's ftp site. I was also given a list of files to be translated and I saw that I was missing 5 files. I enquired about the missing files and was told that they were indeed included in the original zip file and they could download the zip file without problems. A second download had the same files missing. I then asked the client to e-mail me these five files separately. The zip file arri... See more
Has this ever happened to you?

I downloaded a zip file of almost 10 MB with 35 files from a client's ftp site. I was also given a list of files to be translated and I saw that I was missing 5 files. I enquired about the missing files and was told that they were indeed included in the original zip file and they could download the zip file without problems. A second download had the same files missing. I then asked the client to e-mail me these five files separately. The zip file arrived - empty! Only e-mailing unzipped files finally delivered these files to my computer.
The first thing that happened after opening the first of these file (word) was a system crash. But after that everything worked fine.

Does anyone have any idea what might have caused this problem? ▲ Collapse
 
Robert Zawadzki (X)
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Use WinZip Aug 6, 2004

ZIP built into XP does not recognize all compression methods used by WinZip and in the old Microsoft tradition does not inform you about it.
 
Heike Behl, Ph.D.
Heike Behl, Ph.D.  Identity Verified
Ireland
Local time: 20:10
Member (2003)
English to German
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Thanks! Aug 6, 2004

That exactly was the problem. Now I see all files.
Well, yet another aspect where MS proves utterly unreliable.
 


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