Zip archive is corrupted / not expanding

[themountainduck]

Hi team,

Have hit a snag with the generated export file.
Size looks about right, but it won't expand.
Am on Mac and Have tried with Stuffit too.

Tried deleting the plugin and re-installing from both the download version, and via WP interface.
Issue prevails.

Site is Running WP Version 5.4.2 - unable to rollback.
Don't know PHP version sorry, not my server.

[pquirk2017]

I too have this issue. Just tried downloading my media library. I tried single folder with all files and nested options, and both compress and not compressed.
Each results in a zip file on my machine which WinZip says is invalid. (Windows 10 PC

Export Media Library plugin version 3.0.1
PHP 7.3.12
Wordpress 5.5.3
WinZip 15.5 Pro.

[andrejpavlovic]

@pquirk2017 Can you try using 7-zip by any chance? https://www.7-zip.org If that doesn't work, and you are comfortable with sharing the zip file with me, you can send me a link to download it somewhere. I really would like to get to the bottom of the issue.

[zenmediasocial]

@andrejpavlovic using 7-zip did not work. I'm sad as this was one of my favorite plugins when I was doing a migration. Any chance it can be updated for modern wordpress/PHP?

[pquirk2017]

@andrejpavlovic Thanks for getting back to me but I’ve long since deleted the zip file and the website has gone. The reason I was doing the download was to archive the material. I found another way of doing the job. FYI my copy of Winzip was an actual paid for one from Winzip themselves, V14 I think, so not the latest version.

[evaraquel]

I am having the same exact problem on Mac OSX. Really frustrating. I need to access those file and remove them from WP

[jpwexperience]

Was also having this problem on Mac OS.

Solved it by installing 7-Zip and using 7z x <file> to extract. Be nice if the compressed file was .7z instead of .zip to make this clear.

[wdburgdorf]

Still the same issue. Only 7-zip can open the archive. And then, there are still errors with single files.
And a feature request: It would be nice if the plugin would allow to choose certain folders and/or media types.

[andrejpavlovic]

If someone could share an exported zip that cannot be opened, that would help with figuring out what is causing the issue.

[Xpertosweb79]

Only 7-zip can open the archive

[wispyco]

Something that worked for me was using this plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/export-media-urls/

and then writing a python script to download all the images

import os
import pandas as pd
import requests
from urllib.parse import urlparse

# Define the path to your CSV file
csv_file_path = 'media.csv'  # Update this with your actual CSV file path

# Define the output folder to save images
output_folder = 'images'

# Create the output folder if it does not exist
if not os.path.exists(output_folder):
    os.makedirs(output_folder)

# Read the CSV file
df = pd.read_csv(csv_file_path)

# Function to extract the filename from the URL
def extract_filename(url):
    parsed_url = urlparse(url)
    return os.path.basename(parsed_url.path)

# Loop through each URL in the CSV
for index, row in df.iterrows():
    url = row['URLs']
    try:
        # Get the image data
        response = requests.get(url)
        response.raise_for_status()  # Check for request errors
        
        # Extract the filename from the URL
        image_name = extract_filename(url)
        image_path = os.path.join(output_folder, image_name)

        # Save the image with the original filename
        with open(image_path, 'wb') as file:
            file.write(response.content)
        print(f"Downloaded {image_path}")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Failed to download {url}: {e}")

print("Image scraping completed.")

The old site image urls just need to be accessible

then run python python_file.py

Maybe this will help someone