Winzip file size limitations

[suoh]

A friend of mine emailed me a large zip file today - almost 300 Mb in
size.

I have Powerarchiver (the last freeware version, whatever that number
was) for my zip utility. It can't open the zipped file. I click on the
zipped file (which shows up with the icon looking like an icon for a
zipped file) and Powerarchiver starts, but displays an empty archive.

So my questions are:

1. What are the maximum file sizes that can be handled by common zip
utilities?

2. Since Powerarchiver can't handle this zip file, can someone recommend
a (hopefully free) utility that can?

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

A friend of mine emailed me a large zip file today - almost 300 Mb in
size.

I have Powerarchiver (the last freeware version, whatever that number
was) for my zip utility. It can't open the zipped file. I click on the
zipped file (which shows up with the icon looking like an icon for a
zipped file) and Powerarchiver starts, but displays an empty archive.

So my questions are:

1. What are the maximum file sizes that can be handled by common zip
utilities?

2. Since Powerarchiver can't handle this zip file, can someone recommend
a (hopefully free) utility that can?

I've never run into problems with file sizes in WinZip. It's free to use for
21 days and then you'll need to register it. For other freeware options try
here:

http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/fil.htm#File Compression: Zip-Unzip

 

[dadiOH]

suoh wrote:

1. What are the maximum file sizes that can be handled by common zip
utilities?

Depends, normally around 4 gigs

2. Since Powerarchiver can't handle this zip file, can someone
recommend a (hopefully free) utility that can?

Maybe it can't open it because it is no good.

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[°Mike°]

There should be no problem with a 300 MB zip file,
with any archiver; it's a poor archiver if there is.
Try the trial version of WinZip.

 

[Mario Alvares]

A friend of mine emailed me a large zip file today - almost 300 Mb in
size.

2. Since Powerarchiver can't handle this zip file, can someone recommend
a (hopefully free) utility that can?

Most archiving utilities (including the freeware ones) can handle zip
files of this size. Maybe the zip file itself is corrupt. Many of the
newer archiving utilities have a 'Test' feature which help determine if
an archive is corrupt.

You could try one of these:

IZArc
http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm

ZipGenius
http://www.zipgenius.it/index_eng.htm

7-Zip
http://www.7-zip.org/

ICEOWS
http://www.iceows.com/HomePageUS.html

TugZip
http://www.tugzip.com/

AlZip (FREE for home users)
http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=47

My preference is to use the excellent IZArc, but unfortunately its shell
extension (IZArcCM.dll) seems to have a bug which causes another
freeware app I use, xplorer2, to crash (Further details for anyone
interested : http://tinyurl.com/655vr). I currently use ICEOWS.

Regards,
Mario

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hello,

there is a 64bit extension to ZIP to avoid any size limit
(which is even in ordinary ZIP around 4 GB) introduced by
ZIP innovators PkZIP, so maybe that is the reason. I switched
to TugZip, because that can handle this files too.

TugZip
http://www.tugzip.com/

See also:

http://www.geocities.com/marcoschmidt.geo/zip-archive-file-format.html

Quote: "the format was extended to use 64 bit integers, but not
all programs support that"

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[Mikey]

Hi;
Got a 1.7 GIG zip file that is esealy handled by Power Archiver 6.11 (last free v.).

 

[Ionizer]

A friend of mine emailed me a large zip file today - almost 300 Mb in
size.

A 300MB email attachment actually went through? 300MB?

 

[H-Man]

A friend of mine emailed me a large zip file today - almost 300 Mb in
size.

I have Powerarchiver (the last freeware version, whatever that number
was) for my zip utility. It can't open the zipped file. I click on
the
zipped file (which shows up with the icon looking like an icon for a
zipped file) and Powerarchiver starts, but displays an empty archive.

So my questions are:

1. What are the maximum file sizes that can be handled by common zip
utilities?

2. Since Powerarchiver can't handle this zip file, can someone
recommend
a (hopefully free) utility that can?

It was my experience that PowerArchiver looks like it's done and diplays
a blank archive, but it really isn't done. Wait for a while, it should
populate the screen once it reads the entire file. As I recall, this can
take a couple on minutes for file this size.

 

[dadiOH]

A friend of mine emailed me a large zip file today - almost 300 Mb
in size.

That's a very generous mailbox you have there...mine limits attachments to something like 10 MB.

--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

 

[suoh]

That's a very generous mailbox you have there...mine limits attachments to
something like 10 MB.

Okay, point of accuracy... the email contained a link to a web page with
a downloadable zip file.

 

[Lady Chatterly]

Okay, point of accuracy... the email contained a link to a web page with
a downloadable zip file.

I emailed you. It bounced.

--
Lady Chatterly

"Without a doubt she(?) is intelligent. The smugness in her comments
seems to comes from a need for self praise. She likely wants to avoid
the hook of interaction and it seems her punish/reward system is a bit
****ed up (she's too sensitive and it seems acknowledged). She is
usually the most unprovocative. She is most likely educated in a
non-typical feminist fashion (this is a big complement). She usually
goes out of her way not to offend. She adds no value to the group
(what I thought was intentional distance until the last few posts)."
-- Leone

 

[Fred]

I emailed you.

Does your medication cause impotence?

-- Lady Chatterly

What do you do when you are alone with a girl?

The smugness in her comments seems to comes from a need for self
praise.

You are at a party full of eligible singles Not one person shows any
interest in you. Do you leave feeling unattractive and uninteresting?

She likely wants to avoid the hook of interaction and it seems her
punish/reward system is a bit ****ed up (she's too sensitive and it
seems acknowledged).

It may seem her punish/reward system is a bit ****ed up (she's too sensitive
and it seems acknowledged).

She is usually the most unprovocative.

Is she really?

She is most likely educated in a non-typical feminist fashion (this is
a big complement).

My brother-in-law is also most likely educated in a non-typical feminist
fashion (this is a big complement)

She adds no value to the group (what I thought was intentional distance
until the last few posts).

Who told you to think?

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hello,

Got a 1.7 GIG zip file that is esealy handled by Power Archiver
6.11 (last free v.).

but it's another not so old ZIP format, not all ZIP programs are
able to handle. I don't know about PowerArchiver (current seem to,
but history only goes back to 8.50) or others, I just wanted to
mention, that the ZIP from the original poster _may_ be in this
64bit format so a Unzip is needed that is aware of that, like for
example TugZip. I have a commercial backup tool, that generates
this file format so I had to search for a zipper with this feature,
and I'm glad with what I found. Filzip, Icenows, Izarc did not at
that time, maybe they added it since then.

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[ms]

My preference is to use the excellent IZArc, but unfortunately its shell
extension (IZArcCM.dll) seems to have a bug which causes another
freeware app I use, xplorer2, to crash (Further details for anyone
interested : http://tinyurl.com/655vr). I currently use ICEOWS.

Regards,
Mario

I also like and use IZArc, found another bug. When archiving a folder, if the
folder contains a dll file, the resulting zip file does not include the dll file.
The IZArc forum could not solve this.

Mike Sa

 

[John Corliss]

I also like and use IZArc, found another bug. When archiving a folder,
if the folder contains a dll file, the resulting zip file does not
include the dll file. The IZArc forum could not solve this.

Mike Sa

I'm telling ya' Mike, ICEows is the way to go:

http://www.iceows.com/HomePageUS.html

I tried IZArc several times and always gave up on it as being too buggy.

--
Regards from John Corliss
No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware,
nagware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses
or warez please.

Because Andy Mabbett is stalking me in this group, I have him killfiled.

 

[Phred]

I also like and use IZArc, found another bug. When archiving a folder, if the
folder contains a dll file, the resulting zip file does not include the dll
file.
The IZArc forum could not solve this.

I'm sorry mates, but how can you seriously profess to like and use a
program that crashes other programs and, *much* more seriously,
doesn't even include all the files you expected to find in the
archive?

Supporting freeware may give a warm inner glow, but this is absurd!

Cheers, Phred.

 

[Mario Alvares]

I also like and use IZArc, found another bug. When archiving a folder,
if the folder contains a dll file, the resulting zip file does not
include the dll file. The IZArc forum could not solve this.

Hi Mike,

I could not reproduce the behaviour you are experiencing. Adding a dll
file to an archive is pretty basic, and works here (Win XP, SP1) all the
time.

Maybe it has something to do with your Windows config, or the way your
IZArc progam options are set up.

Mario

 

[Mario Alvares]

(e-mail address removed) (Phred) wrote in

I'm sorry mates, but how can you seriously profess to like and use a
program that crashes other programs and, *much* more seriously,
doesn't even include all the files you expected to find in the
archive?

Hi Phred,

All programs have bugs, some many more than others. I have found IZArc
to be much more stable than some of the other freeware archivers (e.g.
TugZip, FilZip).

The bug I mentioned is a rare one, and doesn't crash other apps
outright. It just happens to crash *one* of the apps I use, because that
app is a file manager, and needs to load Explorer shell extensions, one
of which belongs to IZArc.

The other problem that Mike mentions (dll files not being included in
archives), I have never seen in almost 6 months of using IZArc.

Overall, IZArc is fairly stable, and has lots of features (search within
archives, create CAB files) that I personally find useful. I like IZArc.

Mario

 

[Mario Alvares]

I'm telling ya' Mike, ICEows is the way to go:

http://www.iceows.com/HomePageUS.html

I tried IZArc several times and always gave up on it as being too
buggy.

Really? I've used IZArc a lot, and find it far from being "too buggy".

And just FYI, ICEOWS has some bugs too. Right - click on an EXE (a
normal exe, not a self - extracting exe) file in Windows Explorer, and
select Iceows->Explore Contents. Since the exe file is not a self -
extracting exe, the following message pops up: "Sorry but I can't
determine the type of this archive." Click OK to dismiss the message
box.

Everything's fine so far. But now try to delete the same exe file. You
will get the familiar Windows message "Cannot delete XXX.exe: It is
being used by another person or program."

This happens because ICEOWS has unnecessarily left behind open file
'handles' (16 (!) on my machine, verified using Process Explorer).

Mario