Multi-Part Archive Hell

[ginger ninja]

Hi

 

Not sure if this is the right area to post in so apologies if it best fits elsewhere. Here is the problem:

 

I have a large multipart archive that was given to me on 3 DVD's which was made in winzip on a pc. I copied the files to my mac and have 3 files:

 

file.zip

file.001

file.002

 

now i did lots of reading about and tried a variety of thing. i tried using machacha where i renamed file.zip to file.003 then ran the program - this gave me a file with no extension of about the right size (around 9gig). i renamed the extention to this file as .zip and then tried the unzip function in the terminal, stuffit and the unarchiver. none of which work, when i try it says something along the lines of 'not a valid archive' and in the unzip terminal function it says that:

 

End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not

a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the

latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on

the last disk(s) of this archive.

 

Which is weird because ofcourse the file.zip (renamed .003) is the last one.

 

I also tried combining the files in terminal using the command:

 

cat file.001 file.002 file.003 > combined.zip

 

which results in a combined.zip file of around 9gig again, but as before it won't open with the same error messages as before.

 

i am totally stuck now! i was thinking is it something to do with the resulting zip file being so large? can i even extract the split file manually and then just reconstruct myself (last result as don't really want to do that!)

 

any help would be great!

 

thanks,

 

andy

[~pcwiz]

Just leave it as it is, stick all three files in the same directory and try unzipping file.zip.

[ginger ninja]

hi ~pzwiz

 

ok i tried that and it just unzips the file.zip and doesnt do anything with the others. incedently the extensions are .z01 and .z02 if that makes a difference?