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Downloading a file results in a corrupted archive

See original GitHub issue

OS: Windows 10 Pro x86_64
Version of IPFS Desktop: 0.12.2

Describe the bug

Downloading a file results in a corrupted archive.

To Reproduce

Download something
Open it

Expected behavior

The downloaded file shouldn’t be compressed
The downloaded file should be usable
It would be nice to have progress reporting via https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/7672 🤗

Screenshots

Additional context

When I download via BitTorrent, the download files aren’t compressed. This makes BitTorrent infinitely easier to download with than IPFS Desktop at the moment.

Not everyone is able to open .tar.gz
I don’t have the time to download+compress+decompress 10 GB. Let’s just skip the useless compress+decompress part, please!

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

lidelcommented, Sep 15, 2020

Ok, the problem here is that your browser (Electron renderer) does not handle 405 - Method Not Allowed error properly, and instead downloads the error under the name Test.tar.gz - I think that is an undesired behavior of Electron, in regular browser the download fails with proper error.

Good news is that this bug will be fixed in next release when https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop/pull/1638 is merged, so all you need to do is wait for new release.

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NatoBoramcommented, Sep 15, 2020

Tested with tar.

$ tar -xvzf Test.tar.gz
tar (child): \302\226Test.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Tested with 7z.

7-Zip 19.00 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2019-02-21

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 25 bytes (1 KiB)

Extracting archive: .\Test.tar.gz
ERROR: .\Test.tar.gz
.\Test.tar.gz
Open ERROR: Can not open the file as [gzip] archive


ERRORS:
Is not archive

Can't open as archive: 1
Files: 0
Size:       0
Compressed: 0

ipfs://bafybeieo32rknzpc76mubirgsh6benjjthrzgq2wctvcgrego3ae4ewjlu
Test.tar.gz

If you are indeed getting corrupted files, please re-open.

Looks like I don’t have the permission to re-open issues.

and it’s not just a 7-zip problem

Issues with 7-zip can be reported here.

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