If you’ve been using a computer long enough you’ve likely had your fair share of file corruption encounters. It’s almost a right of passage as you earn your computer user-wings – the life lesson learned generally then centers around always maintaining current backups of your most important files.

When corruption strikes a zip file to the point that traditional compression utilities are unable to read the content, a moment of panic sets in. As a zip file is often a collection of other files and documents, corruption would normally take out everything. Even without a proper backup however, all may not be lost.

Zip2Fix is a free portable utility that attempts to scan a corrupted zip file and recover any fully readable file contents contained within. The recovered files are then extracted into a new .ZFX zip file. The recovery process is actually extremely simple – just open the damaged file from within the utility and after a few moments the process is completed.

Zip2Fix isn’t a miracle worker but it makes for a painless attempt in data recovery on your compressed files – often with great success.

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