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Hi, this is the harder problem I've faced in my life and I hope there's a solution but I'm not very certain.
I had to hide two very personal files hiding their names too and I found this solution: i took these files, compressed them in an inside.zip file, then compressed the zip one other time in an outside.zip file protected with password.
Today I needed to rename the inside.zip archive but File-Roller broke my archive at all (outside.zip has 22B size without chance to recover it)!
So i went on ~/.cache and I took my inside.zip from File-Roller cache, but it appears as corrupted and I can't open it (not sure but I suppose this is due to the fact that the whole archive was encrypted because part of outside.zip).
Is there a method by which I can try to fix it (zip -FF already tried)?
Thank you in advance.
Last edited by Mons1990 (2014-06-11 17:15:47)
Hardware configuration: Intel Core i5 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GEForce 9600GT
Software configuration: Arch Linux, default kernel, NVidia 340xx drivers, Gnome 3 on X.Org
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I wouldn't be too hopeful, unless you have a backup of the original file.
What is the output of "file inside.zip"?
Can you browse the contents with "vim inside.zip"?
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Thank you for the answer.
What is the output of "file inside.zip"?
$ file inside.zip
inside.zip: data
Can you browse the contents with "vim inside.zip"?
nano opens the file, of course no readable output but it show me the content
Hardware configuration: Intel Core i5 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GEForce 9600GT
Software configuration: Arch Linux, default kernel, NVidia 340xx drivers, Gnome 3 on X.Org
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drcouzelis wrote:Can you browse the contents with "vim inside.zip"?
nano opens the file, of course no readable output but it show me the content
NANO?!
The reason I said Vim is because it can read the contents of a ZIP file and show you the filenames inside. If it can read the filenames from your ZIP file then it's a start.
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Mons1990 wrote:drcouzelis wrote:Can you browse the contents with "vim inside.zip"?
nano opens the file, of course no readable output but it show me the content
NANO?!
The reason I said Vim is because it can read the contents of a ZIP file and show you the filenames inside. If it can read the filenames from your ZIP file then it's a start.
Installed vim, but it reads only the raw file full of meaningless chars. :-(
Last edited by Mons1990 (2014-06-11 14:12:54)
Hardware configuration: Intel Core i5 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GEForce 9600GT
Software configuration: Arch Linux, default kernel, NVidia 340xx drivers, Gnome 3 on X.Org
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It sounds like either a corrupt file or (like you suggested) it's still encrypted some how.
How big is "inside.zip"? Is the size appropriate for the contents?
How did you create the ZIP file originally?
I suggest trying as many applications as possible, even WinZip on Windows.
You could post the file online to see if anyone can hack into it.
...Other than that, I'm pretty much out of ideas.
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THANKS GOD I tried ALL of the files cached by file-roller and of 12 total archives with the same size ONE OF THEM WORKED! I really thank you too for helping me.
Now that I found my stuff the question is... WHY THE HELL File-Roller caches my encrypted archive on my hard disk and does it without any encryption?! It seriously violates my privacy and then broke my archives. Today I learned something: NEVER use this s***!!!
Thank you so much for help!
Last edited by Mons1990 (2014-06-11 14:14:31)
Hardware configuration: Intel Core i5 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GEForce 9600GT
Software configuration: Arch Linux, default kernel, NVidia 340xx drivers, Gnome 3 on X.Org
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For future reference: GnuPG. Just give your files inconspicuous names and encrypt them. You can also encrypt tarballs with it, if you still wanted to go that route. If you consider the issue solved, don't forget to mark your thread as such.
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Yay! You can add the word "[SOLVED]" to the thread title by editing the first post.
Today I learned something: NEVER use this s***!!!
I use TrueCrypt (now tcplay) myself.
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Please edit your first post and choose a thread title that reflects your actual issue, not your assessment of its complexity:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_Post
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I've just encrypted with gpg, thank you all.
Hardware configuration: Intel Core i5 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GEForce 9600GT
Software configuration: Arch Linux, default kernel, NVidia 340xx drivers, Gnome 3 on X.Org
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