Help! revZipOpenArchive fails on some PCs

Luis luis at anachreon.co.uk
Tue Jan 6 08:55:18 EST 2009


Hiya,

Unzipping and Anti-Virus on small files tends to be ok, it's the  
larger files that can cause problems as the Anti-Virus has to check  
the files within the zip.
You can usually set the Anti-Virus to ignore files by extension or by  
folder/directory/location.

Cheers,

Luis.


On 6 Jan 2009, at 13:25, Bernard Devlin wrote:

> Hi Tiemo,
> I have never used revZip... stuff.  However, have you tried opening  
> the zip
> file natively on XP (i.e. just clicking on it and letting XP unzip  
> it)?
>  Clearly there is something different with the PC where it is  
> failing, and
> maybe it will fail using the XP unzip feature.  I know that when I  
> first got
> Vista it was taking an hour or so to unzip a file (and failing on  
> some),
> until I disabled anti-virus, then everything was fine.
>
> Bernard
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB  
> <toolbook at kestner.de>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU! - GREAT LIST MEMBERS!
>>
>>
>>
>> New year, new problems with Rev 3.0 on WinXP.I am using
>>
>> revZipOpenArchive tArchiv, "read"
>>
>> to unzip the archive afterwords. On two of three XP PCs the  
>> extraction
>> works
>> fine with the standalone.
>>
>> When doing a try - catch I get on the third PC the Catch Error:
>> 573,819,1,revZipOpenArchive, which tells me when parsing:
>>
>> Type: Handler (can't find handler)
>>
>> Object name: script
>>
>> Line: (row819 col 1)
>>
>> Hint: _
>>
>> Processing token: thrown error
>>
>>
>>
>> The script runs up to the next statement:
>>
>> put revZipEnumerateItems(tArchiv) into tTempFiles
>>
>> which is also captured by a try - catch section. Here the catch Error
>> throws
>> empty but the prog keeps hanging and doesn't run on. It keeps  
>> hanging in
>> the
>> catch section.
>>
>>
>>
>> Obviously the revZip functions gets into conflict with anything on  
>> my third
>> PC. But even if I could find and delete the disturbing thing on my  
>> third
>> PC,
>> this could happen the same outside in the wildlife at my  
>> customers, and
>> that
>> would be a horror, when the automatic update lets the program  
>> hang. Using
>> the gzip compressing instead of zip also is no solution, because I  
>> have
>> corruption problems with gz files when downloading (actually on  
>> another
>> PC).
>> For that reason I redesigned everything to RevZip and now this  
>> while doing
>> the last tests :-(
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anybody any explanation for this mysterious behaviour or  
>> experienced
>> the
>> same error?
>>
>> I am pretty helpless and it would skip my complete update routine,  
>> if I
>> can't get this one to run on all machines.
>>
>> Thanks for any help, hints, workarounds or whatever could help!
>>
>> Tiemo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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