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Sooooo, this clearly states that it's a problem with the Archive utility in Apple messing up the directory in the zip file but you're choosing to blame Microsoft for this as well. Why not throw in Google and Facebook because they haven't jumped in to fix this either?
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The same reason I'm also blaming 7zip. At the end of the day I don't care whose bleeding elephant broke it, I just want the hour I wasted trying to figure it out and the extra half a day I spent using a loaner mac because I couldn't get a working copy of my VM copied to my newly reloaded PC back.
The fact that the zip is extractable on the mac means it's not a fatal error, and any of the other parties involved in reading zip files could have added the middle case in this sample code:
if (ZipFileIsCorrectlyFormatted(theZipFile))
{
ExtactDataFromTheZipFileNormally(theZipFile);
}
else if (CrappleStillCantCreateACorrectlyFormattedZip(theZipFile))
{
ExtractDataFromTheFubaredZipTheSameWayTheMacDoes(theZipFile);
}
else
{
ShowAnErrorMessage();
}
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've spent a part of the evening reading specifications. The fact that Apples faulty implementation of zip64 is reversible means nothing, since there is no way of knowing that the file has been zipped on a mac.
You really can't blame anyone but Apple, in this case.
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Can I blame oracle?
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That's a given.
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since it was a whOracle VirtualBox VM you actually can. (well sort of, but close enough)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: whOracle
 
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Thanks for reminding me to go back and upvote that.
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And the CIA?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Talk to 7Zip; they're more likely to come up with a fix than the big boys.
There's certainly no point in talking to ms; they're too busy coming up with Great New Features (that no-one wants, or that replace effective functions) to do anything about the tens of thousands of bugs in their products.
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It's the year of the chicken
- ms want to be the first put lips on it,
- and for their next trick: they're gonna bring out the lipstick.
(btw it's not year of the rooster - not that they have lips either; but real roosters don't wear lipstick)
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Lopatir wrote: it's not year of the rooster
If it was, then it would be a complete coc<nobr>k-up. :rim-shot:
Software Zen: delete this;
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Dan Neely wrote: dating back to at least 2009
Prior to that the size did not matter, one created on a mac could only be opened on a mac. At least there has been some progress. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Quote:
[...]
Mac OS X's Archive program doesn't work properly with Zip64, and produces bad archives whenever a file in the archive is over 4 GB. Moreover, it mentions that Apple had been told of the bugs long ago but hadn't fixed them. Seems like they still haven't.
[...]
The magic number in the error file: 4294967296 is telling. That's 2^32 or binary 4 gig. When you get an error with that interesting of a round (for binary) number, some program can't handle files that size or larger.
Dan Neely wrote: overly surprised that neither crApple nor Micro$haft care enough to fix an interoperability problem between their OSes
It's not an interoperability problem, as it seems, but Apple running into an integer overflow. It's just pathetic they haven't fixed that yet.
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Marco Bertschi (SFC) wrote: Dan Neely wrote: overly surprised that neither crApple nor Micro$haft care enough to fix an interoperability problem between their OSes
It's not an interoperability problem, as it seems, but Apple running into an integer overflow. It's just pathetic they haven't fixed that yet.
The root problem is on crApple's end, but the zip file isn't unrecoverably broken because the mac would unzip it - the Works on My Machine factor presumably being why they haven't fixed it - at which point the net result is a zip that works on macs but not PCs. That's an interoperability problem, and everyone who's standing on their high horse saying it's someone elses problem are just as much sunshines as the people who screwed up originally.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Zip is a standard.
If we're following your line of argumentation nobody could rant about different browsers handling the same HTML/CSS/JS differently anymore.
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Marco Bertschi (SFC) wrote: If we're following your line of argumentation nobody could rant about different browsers handling the same HTML/CSS/JS differently anymore
Oh, I'm sure I'd find a way.
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Dan Neely wrote: net result is a zip that works on macs
Are you so sure about that? It could be the bytes past the 2^32 point of those files larger than 2^32-1 are all zeros or otherwise elephanted.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The VHD appeared to load fine; but that was as far as I bothered to test anything.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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See?
They should follow my tried-and-true process, and sort all the ones and zeros numerically.
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Is anyone really using Apple for actual work?
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It's pretty popular in some scientific fields. At NASA, almost every astrophysicist I saw had an Apple computer
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Kaladin wrote: almost every astrophysicist I saw had an Apple computer
That must be a throwback to the days when apple machines were better for painting graphics and "shopping" photographs, since that appears to be a major function of astrophysicists.
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Until a few years ago they were guilty of about 99% of the Quicktime videos that showed up in my browser. Thankfully that's finally over and they're using standard video formats now instead of a cancerous plugin.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: cancerous
That's a perfect descriptive for quicktime.
I remember having to remove (you couldn't uninstall it, most of the time) three separate instances of quicktime from a win'95 machine, each of which associated itself with every graphic and video file type when it was opened by some stupid web-site.
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