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Asked: May 10, 20262026-05-10T18:21:08+00:00 2026-05-10T18:21:08+00:00

I have a large number of files in a .tar.gz archive. Checking the file

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I have a large number of files in a .tar.gz archive. Checking the file type with the command

file SMS.tar.gz 

gives the response

gzip compressed data - deflate method , max compression 

When I try to extract the archive with gunzip, after a delay I receive the message

gunzip: SMS.tar.gz: unexpected end of file 

Is there any way to recover even part of the archive?

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  1. 2026-05-10T18:21:09+00:00Added an answer on May 10, 2026 at 6:21 pm

    Are you sure that it is a gzip file? I would first run ‘file SMS.tar.gz’ to validate that.

    Then I would read the The gzip Recovery Toolkit page.

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