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Possibly recover files from a damaged SIT archive
Authored by: fds on Jul 08, '05 11:01:26AM

The standard command-line InfoZIP package included with every copy of OS X also got a fix zipfile command.

Just type zip in Terminal to get a quick usage overview, or man zip for the lengthy manual.

-F Fix the zip archive. This option can be used if some portions of
the archive are missing. It is not guaranteed to work, so you
MUST make a backup of the original archive first.

When doubled as in -FF the compressed sizes given inside the
damaged archive are not trusted and zip scans for special signa-
tures to identify the limits between the archive members. The
single -F is more reliable if the archive is not too much dam-
aged, for example if it has only been truncated, so try this
option first.



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Possibly recover files from a damaged SIT archive
Authored by: a9b8 on Jul 11, '05 09:10:57AM

Drat! Thanks for the info. Typing "apropos zip" did not return this command, so I did not know it existed in OS X.

To 'sampas', I believe I tried unzip without success (on this file).

To "qwerty', yes, you are right, this has nothing to do with SIT or Stuffit; my bad: I normally use Stuffit it to unzip, so had it on my mind when I wrote up the tip. (Too late now, I suspect, cause I submitted this tip here about 2 wks ago and just now saw it listed on macsurfer with the wrong title.)



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