Corrupted zip

[Aelin]

Since yesterday no, I hadn't time and I'm even not sure about tomorrow. Busy busy, more than expected   

[Chiron]

Aelin, did you manage to recover it or are you still trying?

[Jherrith]

I seem to recall winning a version of Howler also once I get home I will look into it and chime in with additional details.

[Aelin]

First I'll try my other option: look if I have somewhere the missing dll, and if it's a endless list of them.

If it's finally impossible, I'll be back toward you to say yay or nay.

[thelufias]

I agree with Chiron......

[Chiron]

You're welcome :winks:

Yes, your experiment with the wrong password makes it all consistent: the question mark is there to tell that a wrong password is just one of the possible causes of the error.

As for Howler 11 not being exactly the one you won, I think that being unable to use a program you legitimately own is more wrong than using a borrowed replacement, no matter if newer or older. Think of it...

[Aelin]

Alas, I fear not: the "unexpected end of archive" you got earlier usually means that a chunk is really missing. And a CRC error may mean several things, not necessarily that the password is wrong.

But what's wrong with a newer version?

Well it's not what I won.

(And I have noticed at my big shame I missed to say the even more basical thank you for WinRAR. So    )

Concerning the password, I have tried in purpose after that with a wrong one. The difference is that time WinRar is categorical. The first thing it says is "wrong password for Howler".
With the good code, it's at the end of line, like a question "(wrong password?)"

So with the good password, it isn't sure it's the good or a bad password.

[Chiron]

Once I enter the code to unzip (and I'm sure it's the good code because I wrote it in several areas with the indication), it's always a problem:
- with usual unzip program (from Windows), I have "unexpected error" which prevents to copy the file.
- with WinRAR, I have "CRC failed in the encrypted file [...] (wrong password?)"

My best guess is the problem comes from the encrypted part of zip. The part asking the code to be unzipped 

Alas, I fear not: the "unexpected end of archive" you got earlier usually means that a chunk is really missing. And a CRC error may mean several things, not necessarily that the password is wrong.

But what's wrong with a newer version?

[Chiron]

Too new for me from 2 levels 

Sorry, then I'm afraid I can't help you - as my version is regularly purchased I checked if I could download a previous one for free, but nothing doing.
But if the .dll's didn't change along the versions we could look in there for possibly missing parts. Let me know...

[Aelin]

Once I enter the code to unzip (and I'm sure it's the good code because I wrote it in several areas with the indication), it's always a problem:
- with usual unzip program (from Windows), I have "unexpected error" which prevents to copy the file.
- with WinRAR, I have "CRC failed in the encrypted file [...] (wrong password?)"

My best guess is the problem comes from the encrypted part of zip. The part asking the code to be unzipped