Unzipping Large ZIP Archives on Mac (like latest Microsoft Edge VM)

Question

After trying to unzip the latest Microsoft Edge Vm zip file on my mac I end up with a *.cpgz file.

Its supposed to result in a *.ova file for virtualBox.

Anyone know how to fix this?

For me using a command line tool other than "unzip" worked (i.e. the built-in tar works), see the answers here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/q/208139/25085 — rogerdpack, Dec 29 '15 at 22:46

score 38 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 28 '16 at 17:13

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Running the following worked great (ditto is installed by default):

$ ditto -x -k Microsoft\ Edge.Win10.For.Windows.VirtualBox.zip edge

edited Oct 28 '16 at 17:13

rogerdpack

answered Aug 21 '15 at 14:30

Christopher

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Watch out the file name changes: `ditto -x -k {{vmDownloadName}}.zip edge` – Christopher Nov 12 '15 at 18:54

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 22 '16 at 00:01

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Tar worked for me e.g. tar -xvf MSEdge.Win10_RS1.VirtualBox.zip

answered Sep 22 '16 at 00:01

Vinnie James

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 22 '15 at 15:02

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The way we recommended for the VMs in dev.modern.ie is to use The Unarchiver. You can know more about how to unzip them in the instructions (page 2).

Also the files are zip64, so any software that can handle them should be ok.

answered Aug 22 '15 at 15:02

Antón Molleda

Unarchiver didn't work for me, had to use Ditto. Not sure if it's because my version is old, or the OS, but it just recursively unarchived itself. – Matt Fletcher Jul 28 '16 at 09:32
What file did you try to unzip using Unarchiver and what is your version? – Antón Molleda Jul 28 '16 at 20:16
It was the Windows 8.1 IE11 ZIP file from Microsoft's own website – Matt Fletcher Jul 29 '16 at 10:17
We haven't update that file in a long time so it is probably your Unarchiver version – Antón Molleda Jul 29 '16 at 19:37
Yeah could be that. I have 3.10.1 and the latest is 3.11.1 – Matt Fletcher Aug 01 '16 at 09:12

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