Corrupt rar/winrar Archive

Hello, Jacqueline -

If you received the zipped file as an attachment to an email sent to you, contact the person who sent you the email and zipped attachment and let that person know you are unable to unzip and open the file. Ask him or her if the file can be sent to you the file in unzipped format. If that is not possible, as the sender what software he / she used to zip the file.

If you were not sent the zipped file as an email attachment, then what is the zipped archive where you found and downloaded the file?

Best wishes.

I have not tested any of these free products, but at no cost, you should be able to make multiple copies of the zip archive, and test each software to see if it can be repaired.

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/repair-damaged-or-corrupted-zip-archive/


6 Ways to Repair and Extract Invalid ZIP Files for Free Raymond CC

Try this guide below or may recovery rar via https://rar.recoverytoolbox.com/
Open the file in WinRAR (download from internet if you don't have one).
Press your right mouse-button.
Click on "Repair archive", or press Alt+R.
Click on Browse button and select a folder where you want to keep the repaired archive.
There will be two options ("Treat the corrupt archive as RAR" and "Treat the corrupt archive as ZIP").
Select any one of your choice (or see which one will work) and click on OK button.
Go to the folder where you have kept the repaired archive and open it (Repaired archive will be named as rebuilt.*.rar or rebuilt.*.zip, where * is the name of original archive).

Try next one manually solution in WinRAR:
<Open the file in WinRAR (download from internet if you don't have one).
<Press your right mouse-button.
<Click on "Repair archive", or press Alt+R.
<Click on Browse button and select a folder where you want to keep the repaired archive.
<There will be two options ("Treat the corrupt archive as RAR" and "Treat the corrupt archive as ZIP").
<Select any one of your choice (or see which one will work) and click on OK button.
<Go to the folder where you have kept the repaired archive and open it (Repaired archive will be named as rebuilt.*.rar or rebuilt.*.zip, where * is the name of original archive).

If the guide above isn't effective for your damaged .rar file, then...
http://tonyshorten.hubpages.com/question/233108/how-to-apply-winrar-repair-for-multi-part-archives - thread where is discussed the same issue with .rar file
http://www.filerepairforum.com/forum/archives/archives-aa/winrar/1490-rar-archive-error-message-in-header - open community for any experienced users
https://www.repairtoolbox.com/rarrepair.html RAR Repair Toolbox - gives you the guarantee of fast and quality restoration, but of course it costs money

RAR is the native format of WinRAR archiver. WinRAR tool is not only used to create RAR file but also used to repair corrupted RAR file or fix corruption from them. Whenever WinRAR fails to extract data from RAR archive, it means the archive is invalid or corrupted. You can repair the corrupted RAR archive by using the built-in repair feature of WinRAR application. All the required steps are shown below:
Solution #1
1) Open your WinRAR application.
2) Click on File tab and then click on Open archive. Or simply press Ctrl+O.
3) A new small window "Find archive" will be appeared.
4) Now locate your corrupt RAR file from the system directory and then click on Open.
5) Click on Tools tab and then click on Repair archive. Or simply press Ctrl+R.
6) Again a new small window "Repairing FileName.rar" will be appeared.
7) Now Browse the location where you want to save the new repaired archive.
8) The box "Treat the corrupt archive as RAR" is checked by default. But if it is not, then do check it.
9) Click on OK. The repairing process of selected archive will be started.
10) Once it is successfully completed click on Close.
Solution #2
RAR Viewer Tool - http://www.rar.viewertool.com/

Sounds like the rar file you got is corrupt.try downloading it again.

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