unfamiliar with 7zip archive - Help!

[Ernest Doub]

Which triggers the thought to email the file that was originally sent back
to the originator and see if it will still unzip on the system used to
process it in the beginning.
If it won't work then you know something is definitely broken within the
sent file[s].

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-"God is not fooled." - Eric Metaxa

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution
inevitable." John F. Kennedy

- "Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny" - Sir Terry Pratchett

-  *Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.*   Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

- "If men are not governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants."  William
Penn, founder of Pennsylvania   - - - - - "The wicked walk on every side,
when the vilest men are exalted" (Psalm 12:8)"  - - - - -

Monster =  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXP4tRUuqUY





On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Tony Baechler - BATS <bats at batsupport.com>
wrote:

> On 2015-04-11 06:47 PM, C.Tresenriter wrote:
> > He's a Windows user and just double clicked on the file to open it - a
> > MAC user did the same.
> > I've got 7zip on my Win install and it pukes too.
> >
> > The file isn't all that important, I just thought I was missing
> > something obvious (again).
>
>
> Hi,
>
> For what it's worth, I would try two things.  First, what is the output of
> this?
>
> 7z l file.7z
>
> Second, what if you cat the pieces together and then try to extract?  I'm
> also wondering if somehow the archive got corrupted in email transit.  If
> 7-zip can't list it, it's probably broken and there is no point in
> continuing.  I think the archive contents are stored in the header, so if
> the first part is damaged, it isn't going to extract unless you use an
> archive repair utility.
>
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