Hello,
I try to decompress a zip file as follows:
unzip File.zip
i have this error:
Archive: File.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of File.zip or
File.zip.zip, and cannot find File.zip.ZIP
Have you any idea about this error?
Thank you.
This zip file has an incomplete format. zipfiles that are complete have, among a lot of things, metadata (like a folder or directory) about the files in the archive.
A long time ago, when external floppy drives were small, Jean Luc Gailly adopted a strategy that allowed the zip file to span output volumes, so one zip "file" was actually 3 or four or more physical files. Each file filled one small floppy.
You have file #2 of 14 ( I made up pretend numbers, but this is what the error means). This file does not contain the metadata or directory. It is in #1 of 14.