backup file not a zip file

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Thu, November 26, 2009 00:02, Wade Smart wrote:
> My friend just called and IM'ed me this message:
>
> [/media/Photos_Vide/compressed keep file]
>    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.
> note:  /media/Photos_Vide/compressed keep file may be a plain
> executable, not an archive
> zipinfo:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of
> /media/Photos_Vide/compressed keep file or
>            /media/Photos_Vide/compressed keep file.zip, and cannot find
> /media/Photos_Vide/compressed keep file.ZIP, period.
>
>
> He "thought" he zipped his photos and videos to a file and now he cant
> view them on windows or ubuntu.
>
> Is he fubar'ed?

Hard to tell. Is the file super secret or can you put it up somewhere?