I have been having an issue with .zip. I am running Linux version of Synchronet. When I add a file to an area I do it by upoading it. It finds the file and starts the upload when it is almost finished it exits with an error that .zip has errors. I have tried this locally and from a remote computer.
I use multimail, and it has no problems going either way. Not sure what is going on.

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Re: Problem with .zip
By: Grease to All on Sat Mar 08 2025 10:37 am

I have been having an issue with .zip. I am running Linux version of Synchronet. When I add a file to an area I do it by upoading it. It finds the file and starts the upload when it is almost finished it exits with an error that .zip has errors. I have tried this locally and from a remote computer.
I use multimail, and it has no problems going either way. Not sure what is going on.

Check what you have set in SCFG->File Options->Testable File Types. The stock config tests for ZIP file use 'zip' and 'unzip', so you need to have those utils install on Linux - do you?
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Re: Problem with .zip
By: Grease to All on Sat Mar 08 2025 10:37 am

I have been having an issue with .zip. I am running Linux version of Synchronet. When I add a file to an area I do it by upoading it. It finds the file and starts the upload when it is almost finished it exits with an error that .zip has errors. I have tried this locally and from a remote computer.
I use multimail, and it has no problems going either way. Not sure what is going on.

Check what you have set in SCFG->File Options->Testable File Types. The stock config tests for ZIP file use 'zip' and 'unzip', so you need to
have those utils install on Linux - do you? --

I do. I open a terminal and type both and they come up. It's like when it
opens the zip, it finds a bad crc or something like that. It doesn't do it for all files. Just seemingly random ones.

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Re: Re: Problem with .zip
By: Grease to Digital Man on Sat Mar 08 2025 09:27 pm

I have been having an issue with .zip. I am running Linux version of Synchronet. When I add a file to an area I do it by upoading it. It finds the file and starts the upload when it is almost finished it exits with an error that .zip has errors. I have tried this locally and from a remote computer.
I use multimail, and it has no problems going either way. Not sure what is going on.

Check what you have set in SCFG->File Options->Testable File Types. The stock config tests for ZIP file use 'zip' and 'unzip', so you need to have those utils install on Linux - do you? --

I do. I open a terminal and type both and they come up. It's like when it opens the zip, it finds a bad crc or something like that. It doesn't do it for all files. Just seemingly random ones.

Maybe it's not random. Perhaps the file is using a really old ZIP compression scheme? Are you able to test and verify the ZIP files using the same version of Info-zip before you "upload" it?

BTW, just in case you weren't aware: https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:files#adding_files
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Re: Re: Problem with .zip
By: Grease to Digital Man on Sat Mar 08 2025 09:27 pm

I do. I open a terminal and type both and they come up. It's like when it opens the zip, it finds a bad crc or something like that. It doesn't do it for all files. Just seemingly random ones.

Maybe it's not random. Perhaps the file is using a really old ZIP compression scheme? Are you able to test and verify the ZIP files using the same version of Info-zip before you "upload" it?

Sorry, these files were on another computer. I was trying from my laptop and from work. Work is a windows computer and I did pkzip and unzip on laptop. I will have to see if they are the same.

BTW, just in case you weren't aware: https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:files#adding_files

Thank you. For local files I just used the upload on the board.

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