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Compatibility and Corruption Issues with Zip by ColinDolly

Zip is one of the most popular and widely used file formats for file compression and archiving. Zip archive generally contains one or more files in compressed form toreduce their size. Zip files are generally created using WinZip utility and use the .zip extension.

In order to access contents of a Zip file, you need to extract it using WinZip software. After extraction to a directory, a new folder is created with the same name and the file can be used as it was before compressing.

Though it is very useful for transferring files over a network or the Internet, sometimes you might face problems while extracting the Zip file. When you try to extract a Zip file on a Windows Vista based computer, you might encounter the following error message: "This file was compressed using an unknown compression method. The compression method used for this file is old. error: no files were found - othing to do" After this error message, the extraction process gets terminated and thus you can not access data from the Zip file.

Grounds of this issue You may encounter this problem due to any of the following reasons:

. The Zip file was created using WinZip10.0 or earlier versions but Vista includes support for later versions of WinZip and thus the extraction process could notbe completed. . The Zip file is corrupted and WinZip can not read the contents of the file. To get your valuable data compressed as the Zip files, you need to resolve this problem after assessing the cause of corruption which may be WinZip version incompatibility, CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) errors etc.

Resolution

If you are experiencing the problem due to version incompatibility, then you can fix it using the compatible version of WinZip. But if Zip corruption is the root causeof this issue, you need to go for Zip Repair.

Zip Repair can easily be carried out using powerful zip recovery software like Stellar Phoenix Zip Recovery.This Zip Repair software is powerful enough to scan the corrupted Zip file(s) and achieve absolute Zip Recovery.

Phoenix zip repair can recover Zip file up to 800 MB in size. It can repair all sub-types of Zip up to WinZip 11.1 (thataren't password protected) and up to WinZip 8.0 (that can be password protected). This Zip Recovery software is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, NT andME.