Recover from a stuck unzip operation

Dec 22, '03 09:36:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

With Panther comes a wonderful new feature to automatically unzip and work with zip archives. Well, if you have an "incomplete� zip file and your system is stuck with the perpetual 'Unarchiving "Filename"' dialog box, hitting Cancel often does not work -- the button just disappears after you click it. If this happens, then type the following command into your Terminal and dialog begone!

sudo killall -9 BOMArchiveHelper
Type in your password when prompted. Don't worry, you haven't harmed anything with this command, just gotten "unstuck" (BOMArchiveHelper is the application that unzips the archives, and you've just ended it).

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