Can't open .zip, becomes .zip.cpgz
Can't get a .zip file to open. It becomes a .zip.cpgz, then try to open that and it becomes a .zip again.
Somewhere I read an app called Ditto would open a .cpgz file and was in Mac OSX but can't find it. Stuffit does not work, Spingy does not work. Also read that a .cpgz format was a Mac format. If it is why can't I open the file?
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Step 1
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Here my code goes:
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I changed my code to look like this:
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import java.io.*;
public class ZipFile
public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException,IOException
ZipFile("D:\\Java\\Test\\INPUTXML_bkp_1.xml");
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String newFileName = new StringBuffer(name).append(".zip").toString();
FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(newFileName);
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zipOutputStream.putNextEntry(zipEntry);
zipOutputStream.finish();
zipOutputStream.close();
return newFileName;
Now I can atleast open the zip file. But the problem is the size of the file is 0 kb. Probably because, I am not populating the Zip entry. Can u pls let me know how do I do that.
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