A .zip or .rar file is a file that stores and compresses one or more other files. Recently, I tried downloading albums from my Flickr account, but I often received the same error message when opening the .zip file: “Unexpceted end of archive“. Very frustrating; the message was still there even after redownloading that zip file.
There is, however, a solution. This will explain the solution when using WinRar, but it should also work in other popular file archive programs. Also, this error message can appear on various archive filetypes, including .rar, .zip, .tar, .tar.gz
- Just close that error dialogue first.
- Then, in the top menu go to ‘tools‘ and choose ‘repair archive‘. (Or use Alt + R)
You will then be asked in what folder the repaired archive should be saved. Choose a folder. The archive type should be the same as the file extension of the original file (so if it is a .zip file, choose ZIP and for a .rar. choose Rar). Click OK.
Now wait until the process finishes. If everything goes well, your RAR or ZIP file should be repaired and the error message should no longer appear when opening your archive file!
Your repaired file can be found on the location you choose earlier and the name should be rebuilt.originalname.zip/.rar.
What if it throws that message at me even during repairing? What then?
Same here
The problem still
download and install 7z app and try again with that. It will be probably be fixed
Ben 10 Omniverse 2 [SVYEG9].zip
1 Unexpected end of archive
2 Data error
Grand Theft Auto Vice City(Tech by kings ).iso
1 Unexpected end of archive
2 Data error
3 zarchiver
Thanx buddy its help alot
it is loading unlimitedly
thank you very much…. appreciate…
thanks very helpful
Levo
Didn’t work, still getting the error when attempting to extract the file.
after repairing, the response is file header is corrupt, no file is repaired
Yea still not working m8 the error message is still coming up
Thank you very much for your tips :)
very useful, thank u :)
Thanks man really helped…
I have got two errors, how can I fix it?
C:\Users\Admin\Downloads\[File Name].zip: Checksum error in
C:\Users\Admin\Downloads\[File in the zipped folder]. The file is corrupt
C:\Users\Admin\Downloads\[File Name].zip: The archive is corrupt
Very Useful thank u :D
a… it does repair but noting comes inside
Same here
It works but I have files missing within the file even after i go through the steps
Thanks..
Thanks Sir, it works, Thanks a lot
Thanks Bro. It worked for me.
i repair it, but when i extract 1 file to run is missing
Can you help me ???
thanks man it worked. thanks a lot
Thanks alot. for those still having issues, click on the file to be repaired and repair.
download and install 7 zip… afterwards simply try opening the archive!
it usually works, if not, proceed to recovery options!
Thanks! That worked!
Didn’t work.
But I was able to get the contents of the .rar file easily by “drag” and “Drop” the files outside the compressed file.
when i press repair
it shows this
WinRAR can repair only RAR and ZIP archives
Also had thins problem and the above solution did not work. . What really did, and I have seen this before, is to use 7ZIP as the unzipper not WinRAR or WinZip… Worked on both the ZIPs I had downloaded in a set of 6, the other 4 worked ok without 7ZIP.. so not sure what happened with these two, re-downloading the faulty ones didn#t work either
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Hi, it didn’t work , what should be done then?
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