

Here we see the familiar “Headers Error” and “Unconfirmed start of archive” errors, as well as a warning about a cyclic redundancy check that failed on an extracted file. 6.0) using the following command:ħ-Zip 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov :

Extracting with UnzipĪs a first test I tried to extract the file from the terminal using unzip (v. This all looked a bit worrying, so I decided to have a more in-depth look at this problem. No actual data were extracted whatsoever. It also reported a warning that “There are data after the end of archive”. The output from the underlying extraction tool ( 7-zip) reported a “Headers Error”, with an “Unconfirmed start of archive”. When I tried to extract this ZIP file with my operating system’s (Linux Mint 19.3 MATE) archive manager, this resulted in an error dialog, saying that “An error occurred while loading the archive”: Since I wanted to work with these files on my Linux machine at home, and no official OneDrive client for Linux exists a this point, I used OneDrive’s web client to download the contents of the folder. The other day a colleague used OneDrive to share a folder with a large number of ISO images with me. We recently started using Microsoft OneDrive at work.

I have also seen messages that the remote host has been blacklisted or that some AV scanner could not process the file.“Broken zip £12.50” by dichoecho, used under CC BY / Cropped from original. Some sites quarantine downloads and the message will tell you what is needed to retrieve your files. You may be able to open html files with a browser to read error messages, and text files with Notepad or other simple editor. Some downloaders have an option to change the extension to match the file type. On Windows you can get the “file” command from git’s bash terminal, Cygwin, or WSL2. Linux and macOS have “file” command that inspects the first part of a file and makes a (usually correct) guess about the contents. If a download terminated early you may get a partial file and the size alone will indicate a problem, but I have also had files with blocks replaced by “NUL” values so you should look for ways to verify a checksum. When a batch of downloads fails at the same time it is possible that the downloads have been replaced by a text or html document with error messages.
