Downloading zip files
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Thanks for all the interest. I am using XP (SP2) and have WinZip 8.0 installed. I get the same problem whether I use WinZip or the extract tool built into XP. I have tried for some considerable time to open zip files downloaded from Code Project with always the same result (zilch). I regularly zip up files and send them to others for work with no problem. I can open and extract zip files that I make and which work sends to me ok. I haven't tried downloading and extracting files from any other URL since this hasn't arisen. The properties of the downloaded zip files are as they should be, not locked. I have 3 XP machines and they all do the same thing with Code Project files. Ray
If a zip is corrupt then use the "Broken Article" link at the top of each article to report it to the editors.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Got WinRAR, but get message "The archive is either unknown format or damaged". Looking at zip files that I create (with Winzip 8.0 )they start with PK.......Lw6i..+i. then a title. But files from CodeProject start \ \ \ \The Code Project - Member Logon - which doesn't seem like a zip file. What ever is going on? </x-turndown>
Are you using a download manager? That could be the cause.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP