BetterZip 1.7 cannot extract encrypted Zip-archives

Submitted by Tom on Fri, 2008-06-20 14:40
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Hi Robert,

their appears to be an issue with BetterZip version 1.7 (223) and encrypted Zip-files. Whilst they can be opened, they cannot be extracted. Trying to do so results in this error message:

"The archive extraction failed. The transcript drawer may contain further details."

This is the message from the transcript drawer:

"Loading archive: /Users/Thomas/Desktop/Archive/080619.zip

7-Zip 4.57 Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Igor Pavlov 2007-12-06
p7zip Version 4.57 (locale=utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)

Processing archive: /Users/Thomas/Desktop/Archive/080619.zip

Extracting 080619.jpg
Enter password (will not be echoed) :
Data Error in encrypted file. Wrong password?

Sub items Errors: 1"

The archive was created using BetterZip. It makes no difference whether I use PKzip2 or AES-256 encryption. Unencrypted Zip-files work fine though. Also, the archives I created do not seem to be corrupted since I am able to unpack them with PathFinder, 7zX, and Zipeg.

My OS version is 10.5.3

Thomas

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Submitted by Robert on Fri, 2008-06-20 14:50.

Thomas, please upgrade to the just released version 1.7.1 that fixes this problem. Please download manually, as the update checker in 1.7 also doesn't work. Not an especially glorious release after all.

Submitted by Tom on Fri, 2008-06-20 16:25.

Wow, many thanks for your superb support! Everything is working perfectly now.

Thomas

Submitted by Robert on Fri, 2008-06-20 16:26.

Great, I am glad to hear that yesterday's chaos is coming to an end.

Submitted by Morwenna Burn (not verified) on Sat, 2010-03-06 15:08.

Hi There
My Mac is still giving me that error message even after updating my Better Zip to the most recent version.

Please help

Thanks Mo

Submitted by Robert on Sat, 2010-03-06 15:48.

If you get a message about a wrong password or a broken archive in a more recent version of BetterZip the most likely explanation is that you either have a wrong password or a broken archive. Where is the archive from? What format is it? Is it encrypted? What exactly happens?