Can't unZip file

[jimmy d]

Thank you Chakravartin and Winston for trying to help me. I'm just too tired to continue trying to unravel this tonight. I'm going to bed. But this shouldn't have been such a problem in the first place, should it? All I wanted to do was to purchase and download a couple of zip files of NPR programs. Why shouldn't I have been able to just click on these things a couple of times and have then be good to go as mp3 files or whatever? Why, instead, do I get a cryptic error message with no guidance at all on how I might unlock these programs I've paid for? Where's the vaunted Apple intuitiveness in all of this?

[Chakravartin]

Seacrest wrote:
The name thing is a red herring. There aren't many characters Mac OS cannot handle, and the few that would be problematic are disallowed on Windows anyway. Linux and Mac OS are close enough cousins that this is a non-issue.

Looking back at the OP, I think you're right. I mis-read the details of the error.

ZipIt may still help. The built-in decompression app is not particularly smart and ZipIt is much more flexible. But there's a better tool for quickly and easily expanding zip archives.

Try dragging the zip files onto the icon for this app (which should, itself, be easily unzipped in the Finder):
The Unarchiver

[space-time]

jimmy d wrote:
I just tried that Zipit link above again, and it's just totally maddeningly bullshit. I'm sorry to say this Chakravartin, but how could you not check out a link before recommending useless crap like this?

how could you say useless crap like this? that link is fine. I tried it. There is something wrong with your computer.

[jimmy d]

Chakravartin, Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for that link to The Unarchiver. It worked like a charm and easily decompressed all of the zip files I threw at it. Why couldn't the built-in Leopard program have worked that well?

I apologize for the "useless crap" remark I made above. My failure to get that Zipit link to work sent my frustration level, which was already high, right over the top. This should have been such an easy exercise, a no-brainer, not one where I ended up having to cry for help over the internet.

[Winston]

I love it when a plan comes together.