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   Digital Man to Grease   
   Re: Problem with .zip   
   08 Mar 25 22:40:21   
   
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     Re: Re: Problem with .zip   
     By: Grease to Digital Man on Sat Mar 08 2025 09:27 pm   
      
    >  > I have been having an issue with .zip. I am running Linux version of   
    >  > Synchronet. When I add a file to an area I do it by upoading it. It finds   
    >  > the file and starts the upload when it is almost finished it exits with   
    >  > an error that .zip has errors. I have tried this locally and from a   
    >  > remote computer.   
    >  > I use multimail, and it has no problems going either way. Not sure what   
    >  > is going on.   
    >   
    >  DM> Check what you have set in SCFG->File Options->Testable File Types. The   
    >  DM> stock config tests for ZIP file use 'zip' and 'unzip', so you need to   
    >  DM> have those utils install on Linux - do you? --   
    >   
    > I do. I open a terminal and type both and they come up. It's like when it   
    > opens the zip, it finds a bad crc or something like that. It doesn't do it   
    > for all files. Just seemingly random ones.   
      
   Maybe it's not random. Perhaps the file is using a really old ZIP compression   
   scheme? Are you able to test and verify the ZIP files using the same version   
   of Info-zip before you "upload" it?   
      
   BTW, just in case you weren't aware:   
   https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:files#adding_files   
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                                               digital man (rob)   
      
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