When your zip files are damaged or corrupt due to various reasons and you cannot open them normally, you can use Advanced Zip Repair to scan the zip files and recover the data from them as much as possible.
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Start Advanced Zip Repair. |
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Before recovering damaged or corrupt zip files with Advanced Zip Repair, please close any other applications that may modify the zip files. |
| Step 2 |
| Select the damaged or corrupt zip file to be repaired: |
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You can input the zip filename directly or click  button to browse and select the file. You may also click  button to find the zip file to be repaired on the local computer. |
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| Step 3 |
| By default, Advanced Zip Repair will save the fixed zip file into a new file named xxxx_fixed.zip, where xxxx is the name of the source zip file. For example, for source zip file Damaged.zip, the default fixed file will be Damaged_fixed.zip. If you want to use another name, then please select or set it accordingly: |
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| You can input the fixed file name directly or click button to browse and select the fixed file. |
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| Step 4 |
Click  button, Advanced Zip Repair will start scanning and repairing the source zip file. Progress bar  will indicate the repair progress.
After the repair process, if the source zip file can be repaired successfully, you will see a messagebox like this:
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| Step 5 |
Now you can open the fixed zip file with WinZip, WinRAR or other popular zip utilities. |
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The demo version will display the following messagebox to show the success of the recovery:
where you can click  button to see a detailed report of all the recoverable files in the zip archive, including its name, size, packed size and recoverable status, like this:
According to the report, you can know whether Advanced Zip Repair can recover your zip file. However, the demo version will not save the fixed zip file. Please order the full version to get it. |
