On the modern Internet, a huge amount of information is available to the user. Often the Internet connection speed is not high enough to watch your favorite movie, listen to music or play a game online. The only way out in this case is to download the content to the hard drive of your computer. To reduce Internet traffic, files are packed into archives using special archiving programs. Sometimes, when unpacking files, an inscription appears that the archive is damaged. What to do in this case?
First, you need to find out the reason for the failure of the archive. There are a lot of these reasons, but the main ones are as follows: - unstable Internet connection; - error of the browser or other program with which the file was downloaded; - absence of appropriate software on the user's computer; - error while creating an archive. The so-called "network crash" or temporary interruption of Internet traffic carried out by the provider may cause the archive to refuse to execute the unpack command to the folder specified in the default settings. Modern browsers provide resuming of files after a sudden stop of data transfer. However, unfortunately, resume does not work with archives. Despite the fact that a browser or a special program shows the health of the archives and their 100% integrity, in practice it turns out that this is not the case. To rectify the situation, it is better to re-download the archive. If the download went smoothly and the archive downloaded without problems, but it does not open, then you need to check the resolution of the archive. Determine which letters appear in its name immediately after the period. Sometimes there are quite exotic examples when unknown archivers are used in the file packing procedure, whose standards are not supported by well-known file unpackers. In this case, the user receives a notification from the system "the archive is damaged or has an unknown format." The solution to this problem lies on the surface. It is necessary, focusing on the resolution of the archive, to find a program that supports such archives and successfully works with them. The software that the user uses may also have failures. There are situations in which browsers download the archive with a stable Internet connection, but the user cannot unpack the files. If re-uploading does not help, then you need to change the way the browser "picks up" the file from the source. For example, using the Opera browser, sometimes it is necessary not to save a file from a link by clicking the right mouse button, but to click on the link with the left button and give the command to open the file. The computer will offer an archiver program, which is the default and is responsible for unpacking the archives. In this program, the user will need to select the destination folder for the archive and activate the process of extracting files. The last and saddest reason for the user that the downloaded archive is not working is an error when creating the file itself. It is clear that in this case no tricks will help and the user will have to look for another source to download the required archive.
