Repair Error the Archive was Empty or Otherwise Corrupt

In present days, one will find how archiving data or a file into ZIP format is essential thing in each and every field. As it has greater significance in compressing more number of files of different categories with less memory space, .zip turns into the default file format while sharing and storing huge number of files on system. ZIP file format plays crucial role in uploading and downloading files, apps, games and many more.

However, as it requires codecs, decodes and other entities while creating ZIP archive; sometimes it may possess error message due to various reasons. In few instances while importing ZIP files in browser, you might get error message like “the archive was empty or otherwise corrupt” on Windows system. The main reason behind this error is space in between its file name. One can fix the error by renaming Zip file by removing spaces. But, in some circumstances this error might be caused due to other factors such as:

• Read / write issues while extracting its data
• Unreadable or unwired data present in ZIP file
• Interruptions while compressing the large sized files
• Deadly virus / malwares attack on ZIP file
• Header information corruption, unauthenticated tool used to extract files from ZIP format, etc may inclined to this error message

When the ZIP archive show “the archive was empty or otherwise corrupt” error due to any of above mentioned reasons, then it is difficult to repair inaccessible or corrupt ZIP file. If you fail to fix erroneous ZIP file, then make use of appropriate ZIP file repair tool like Yodot ZIP Repair on Windows system.

Fixing the archive was empty or otherwise corrupt error:

Yodot ZIP Repair utility is used you to fix damaged ZIP archive due to ‘the archive was empty or otherwise corrupt’ error on Windows computer. You can mend ZIP archive of .ZIP and .ZIPX file extensions using this reliable archive repair application. It can repair unreadable ZIP file and recovers all its files compressed in it without modifying original file structure as this tool is featured with read-only option. The application fixes severely corrupt ZIP archives even after CRC error, the compressed file invalid error, unable to open the archive error, etc on Windows PC. Furthermore, the program can fix corrupt or erroneous ZIP archive of 4 GB file size. This utility runs compatible on various versions of Windows OS such as Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 and 2003.

Steps to fix the archive was empty or otherwise corrupt error:

• Download Yodot ZIP Repair software and install it to your system
• After launching the program follow onscreen instructions
• First select the error showing ZIP files using “Browse” option and then click on “Repair” button
• This utility will start to scan and fix corrupted ZIP archive
• You can review the process in progress bar available
• On completion of fixing process the software shows list of files present in repaired ZIP file
• Finally click on “Save” button to store healthy ZIP archive on your preferred location

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