Title: [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Zip files is corrupted?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: BackUpWordPress] Zip files is corrupted?

 *  Resolved [gotmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gotmedia/)
 * (@gotmedia)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-zip-files-is-corrupted/)
 * First of all, wonderful plugin! I truly appreciate the development of this.
 * On one of my sites, the zip files are corrupted when downloading them. What would
   cause this? First of all, the files are ‘too big to send to my email’, which 
   is OK, but I go into the admin area to download, and when I try to extract the
   zip files, they are corrupted.
 * Help?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-zip-files-is-corrupted/#post-2990000)
 * Could you try downloading them over FTP in-case they are getting corrupted during
   download.
 *  Thread Starter [gotmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gotmedia/)
 * (@gotmedia)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-zip-files-is-corrupted/#post-2990001)
 * Oh, I didn’t think of that. I’ll try doing that now, thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [gotmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gotmedia/)
 * (@gotmedia)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-zip-files-is-corrupted/#post-2990010)
 * That worked much better. I could open up the folder to extract the files. Some
   minor icon png’s were corrupted, but overall everything worked fine. Huh. I wonder
   why I can download in FTP but not in the admin?
 * Well anyway, I’ll do that if I have problems like that again.
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-zip-files-is-corrupted/#post-2990142)
 * Great to hear that worked.
 *  [davieromkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davieromkins/)
 * (@davieromkins)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-zip-files-is-corrupted/#post-2990248)
 * Like error message says about .zip file is corrupted
 * In that case you would use following application [Zip file repair](http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/repair_zip.html)
   damaged by your case, corrupted zip file downloads and etc.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backupwordpress-zip-files-is-corrupted/#post-2990248)
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