infinity10 opened this issue on Jan 24, 2012 · 8 posts
infinity10 posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 1:38 AM
Found a corrupted zip archive on my computer - from way back 2004, perhaps.
cherryptailp.zip
Can't seem to locate any trace of this on the internet, not even over at the Posette Forever website. I may have missed something.
Any long-timers recall this ?
Eternal Hobbyist
WandW posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 6:05 AM
It was hosted at The Art Door, which closed a few years back. I don't have the file, but I looked up the site on the Internet Archive and came up with this email on the site closing notice...
theartdoor@yahoo.com
The site said there were 210 Poser freebies; I wonder what happened to them all :sad:
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The Wisdom of bagginsbill:
"Oh - the manual says that? I have never read the manual - this must be why."
infinity10 posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 7:19 AM
Thanks so much, WandW.
I had searched earlier at the Internet Archive, but not knowing I should look for The Art Door website, I had no starting point for a meaningful search.
Pity about so many freebies going offline. Some might have been really useful even today.
Eternal Hobbyist
WandW posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 7:50 AM
Quote - Pity about so many freebies going offline. Some might have been really useful even today.
Indeed-there are a lot of older models that look great with new textures or shaders; what Dave Hoadley does with Posette as an example...
Did you try to repair the file? The command line version of zip has a repair feature. I fixed an old Adam Twaites freebie that is no longer available the other day using it...
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The Wisdom of bagginsbill:
"Oh - the manual says that? I have never read the manual - this must be why."
infinity10 posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 7:56 AM
Yes I did try repairing with several archivers, but they tell me this is an incomplete file. Oh well, a pity. I'll have to pass this one up.
Eternal Hobbyist
WandW posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 9:10 AM
I was getting the same message. I used zip, which can be gotten from from infozip.org. The comand line is...
zip -FF --out outputfile.zip inputfile.zip
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The Wisdom of bagginsbill:
"Oh - the manual says that? I have never read the manual - this must be why."
jonnybode posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 10:45 AM
Is it this one?
The readme says its not allowed to distribute but it contains an email-adress + an ICQ adress :-)
I can send you the email adress if you would like test your luck that way.
infinity10 posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 9:16 PM
@jonnybode - Ah, that one. I see that have the cherryptailv.zip, which works fine and so, yes, I can try contacting author directly. So therefore, no worries; thanks for your kind offer.
@WandW - ok, noted. I could also try that type of zip app. Thanks for the info.
Eternal Hobbyist