Windows File is ludicrously huge and I cannot unzip it

I use an online file backup service (Backblaze) and recently got a new computer. Several files on my old computer were too large to move via my usb drive so I decided to download them from my backup service.

Specifically the files included 3 videos consisting of about 20GB.

However...when I proceeded to unzip them, I got the following error message:

Error message: 2.15 EB needed to unzip archive

I use a 250Gb SSD, and a 1TbHDD. I failed to pick up a 2.15 Exabyte Hard drive while picking out my new computer though.

How do I fix this?


Solution 1:

Use a different file archive tool (such as 7-Zip) to unzip the files.

Not all .ZIP features are supported by the Windows Compressed Folders capability. For example, AES Encryption, split or spanned archives, and Unicode entry encoding are not known to be readable or writable by the Compressed Folders feature in Windows versions earlier than Windows 8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)#Implementation

Solution 2:

Download and the latest version of daemontools lite. Once it's installed, rightclick on the .zip file and select open with. Browse to where daemontools was installed. Once found, daemontools will create a virtual drive which contains the content of the .zip file - it will be created on next available drive letter.