Can't unZip file

[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