URGENT CANT OPEN ZIPPED FOLDER

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URGENT CANT OPEN ZIPPED FOLDER

Post by Caemilla » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:39 pm

Dear whoever that is reading this,
Please help! I have a music project due 2 days after and i need to open a zipped(compressed) audacity folder containing codes like "e0003010" or sth like that. So how do i open the zipped audacity folder? My friend sent me a folder which is compressed as to take up less space on yahoo mail. The folder is actually 170+MB but she compressed it into 5KB... So please help! Thank you in advance! :cry:

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Re: URGENT CANT OPEN ZIPPED FOLDER

Post by steve » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:06 pm

Caemilla wrote:My friend sent me a folder which is compressed as to take up less space on yahoo mail. The folder is actually 170+MB but she compressed it into 5KB..
That's impossible. There is no way to compress 170 MB of audio data into 5 KB. You will need to contact your friend and ask them what they have done.
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Re: URGENT CANT OPEN ZIPPED FOLDER

Post by Caemilla » Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:40 am

steve wrote:
Caemilla wrote:My friend sent me a folder which is compressed as to take up less space on yahoo mail. The folder is actually 170+MB but she compressed it into 5KB..
That's impossible. There is no way to compress 170 MB of audio data into 5 KB.
Sorry My bad! I meant a 300MB file compressed into a 170MB file.

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Re: URGENT CANT OPEN ZIPPED FOLDER

Post by Gale Andrews » Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:57 pm

Caemilla wrote:
steve wrote:
Caemilla wrote:My friend sent me a folder which is compressed as to take up less space on yahoo mail. The folder is actually 170+MB but she compressed it into 5KB..
That's impossible. There is no way to compress 170 MB of audio data into 5 KB.
Sorry My bad! I meant a 300MB file compressed into a 170MB file.
Right-click over the zip and choose "Save target as" or "Save link as". Then use the built in Windows utility to unzip the .aup file and _data folder to a the same new folder or use 7 Zip to do the same. Then open the .aup file from the folder you unzipped to.


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