How to recover damaged ZIP files?

[JustinWalt 0]

Where get effective a zip recovery software for corrupted archives? How to recover damaged ZIP files?

[Abrienne 0]

Try to repair the corrupted ZIP archive using WinRAR utility. It supports a built-in repair feature that can repair corrupted RAR as well as ZIP archive. You need to follow the steps given below: 

• Open WinRAR tool, click on File tab > Open. Or press Ctrl + O.
• In the "Find Archive" window, locate the corrupted ZIP file and select it.
• Now click on Tools tab > Repair Archive. Or press Alt + R.
• In the "Repairing File name.ZIP" window, click on Browse button to select a location for newly repaired ZIP archive.
• Check the "Treat the corrupt archive as ZIP" box and click on OK to start the repairing process.
• Within a few seconds, the ZIP archive will be repaired. Click on Close.

Now check the newly repaired ZIP archive at the defined location.

Or you can also try a third-party ZIP recovery tool such as ZIP Recovery to recover data from corrupted ZIP archive if the manual tricks fail. Try its free demo version first. 
To read more about this tool and to download its free demo version, you may visit: www.sysinfotools.com/zip-recovery.html

 

Edited June 22 by Abrienne