Decompressing a 4 GB .zip file

[computerdude556]

I need our help I am getting new computer so I baked up my files and compressed them using stuffit to a .zip file the only problem is its a big folder and is was compressed to a 4 GB file. Stuffit cannot open it and it said the file is corrupted so I used WinZip and it said it is a 4Gb file and cannot open it either then I tried compressed folder to open it an it did not open. I downloaded he latest stuffit and tried the recover option and it recovered only 300 files from the .zip file. Can somebody tell me how to decompress this file I need your help.

 

[Geoff]

Well it sounds like the file is corrupt, so if thats the case then you most likely wont be able to recover all of the files.

 

[computerdude556]

I don’t think it’s corrupted because I used the demo version of ziprecover and I recovered every file but I can’t use them because the demo version just put the text “DEMO” in them. I would have to buy the real version to get the entire files. Can someone tell me a free way to get these files?

 

[jbrown456]

why did you compress the files?

thats like the worst way to back up your stuff


anyways, your best bet would be to go buy the software, if you can..

 

[kof2000]

you can compress your backup as long as you have recovery files like par2.

if it gets corrupted you can repair it.

either is really corrupted or you back it up in ntfs patition and now you're extracting to fat32.