unzipping...

[thebasher]

I downloaded via bittorrent a zipped folder containing songs for Frets On Fire. But when I try to unzip them to anywhere, I get an error message saying, "File skipped unknow compression method, and nothing gets extracted. Can anyone help?

[fo3nix]

Are you sure it's a zip file, and not another compressed file type, like a rar file?

Install 7-zip (it's free), and try it with that:
http://www.7-zip.org/

[trevHCS]

Also be very careful it's not a .exe file with a virus, just calling itself a .zip file - only applies if you double click the file.

If it's not RAR type then it could be a split Zip file whereby you're supposed to have several pieces of the zip file and then a program which puts them together. Or it could be just another dud file.

Trev

[trevHCS]

Actually another possibility is that it's been produced on another type of computer. For example, if you're on a PC and it was created on a Mac then that probably won't work.

A file thought is if it has the extension .zip it might actually be a .gzip file which that program above might open, or if not try www.winrar.com which opens pretty much everything.

Trev

[fo3nix]

trev: even if it was made on a Mac or something else like freeBSD, as long as it's a .zip or whatever, it'll still work.