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Hi

I have a corrupt 60GB zip file (*.zip) holding a few hundred thousand text files with data inside. I built it with 7zip but now 7zip won't open it (says its corrupt or something). I have several other comparable zip files that all work fine so I know that 7zip is capable of opening it. Python's 'zipfile' utility also fails on this file but manages the comparable ones (between 55GB and 65GB).

tl;dr - Anyone know of a decent zip archive recovery tool?

[dorknexus]

I am not aware of an easy way to just recover the file. If the file is corrupted that data is most likely lost and not recoverable.

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Damn!

[GunnerInc]

Um, your sig says, you will google... Have you googled "recover corrupt zip file" :-) Many years ago I used something to get some files from a bad zip, don't remember the name, but try one of the many free and paid programs to see what happens

[scalt]

Yeh I did Google it and found a bunch of them, just thought I would ask around and see if someone had a favourite is all

[GunnerInc]

I will have to look through 3 TB of my stuff to see if I can find what I used...

[andersonaaleyah]

Hi...there are different recovery zip file tools that are available for free or you can purchase it.

If it was a .doc file and not the Word 2007 version, you may be able to retrieve the text using Notepad. Open Notepad and choose 'File | Open'. In the 'Open' dialog, change the file type to 'All Files' and browse to your .doc file. Select it and click 'Open'.

For a more sophisticated and better method, try Repair My Word, it is absolutely free. Download and launch the executable, click 'Repair/open' and browse to the file you want to fix. Recovered text is displayed in the main window. Click 'Save' to save it as an RTF file.