Hi all,
Does anyone know if this plugin supports to open winRar archives?
I have noticed that opening the plugin, in the main panel I have option to select zip file name.
But if i select my .rar extension I get this error
Have a nice weekend,
fsh22
No, it only supports the zip format.
It would been nice as a feature request to support RAR format
Cheers,
fsh22
I have added the request to database.
Hi @Phil,
Just on a seperate note but similar to this.
I’m getting this error when trying to use the decompress plugin. I’ts a simple setup but don’t know how to solve this. Just take a zipped file and decompressing it to, and all the documents dropped into another folder. The zipp file can contain more than 1 pdf file. Any help/know what the issue could be? See image below.
Well that’s peculiar. It would seem to indicate your Zip file is compressed with an algorithm that our plugin can’t handle. That, or the password uses a more advanced encryption algorithm than what the plugin can process.
I will ask our Dev team to look into it, but to start with, it would be useful if you could share a sample zip file (that doesn’t contain any sensitive data) that showcases the issue.
Hi Phil,
I can open the zip file with 7Zip and can extract all the files.
Thanks for this, hope the dev team can find a solution for this or a temporary one for my use scenario. See attached file as a sample. Hope it helps.
I believe the issue, as I suspected, is caused by the compression algorithm used in that Zip file (Zip64), which I don’t think the Decompress task supports.
Fortunately, you can achieve the save thing by calling PowerShell via the External Command task:
Before the task, however, you need to rename the file with a .zip extension (because PS doesn’t support other types of extensions for zip files). You can use the Rename task to that end.
The parameters field contains the following values:
-command Expand-Archive -Force %f C:/Tests/Unzip
As you can see, I am extracting the contents to C:/Tests/Unzip, so you will obviously have to change that value on your system.
Thanks @Phil, I will use the external program plugin for this case.
Do you think this is something that can be added to the Decompress plugin as support for (Zip64)? If not no worries. Thanks for your speedy replies 
I will put in the request but I’m not sure it can be added since Zip64 is specifically for ZIP files larger than 2GBs and that may contain more than 65K files. With Workflow being a 32-bit application, this just might not be possible.