Zip File Corruption While Using Themeroller

Themeroller is an application that allows the developers to create funny or interactive themes, containing various styles, colors, and more. The application can be downloaded from the Internet and allows even a novice user to create new themes. The user can roll out any number of themes as per his/her requirements. While rolling out the themes is easy, it might also result into corruption of a Zip file. In such cases, all the records saved in the Zip file become inaccessible. To overcome Zip file corruption scenarios, the user needs to restore the file from a copy of an updated backup. But if in case of no backup availability or backup falling short to restore the data, the user needs to repair the corrupted Zip file by using an effective third-party Zip Repair software.

To illustrate the above case, consider a real-time situation where you download a new theme (.zip file) and try to roll it out by using an a themeroller. However, when rolling process is in progress, the themeroller stops and the theme could not be rolled out. Moreover, when you view the downloaded file in the Hex-editor, you view that there are 20 bytes attached to a normal 'PK' header.

Cause:
The above situation occurs when the Zip file gets corrupted due to interrupted downloading or virus infection.

Resolution:
To surmount the above Zip file corruption situation, you will need to follow the below steps:

• Download the Zip file again.
• Restore the file from an updated backup.
• In case the file can not be downloaded and backup is not available, then you will need to use a powerful third-party Zip File Repair tool to Repair .Zip file.

Such repair utilities use safe repairing mechanisms to repair corrupt files and restore them on your desired location. These software are built with interactive user-interface, which enables the user to understand the repair process without any prior technical knowledge. The repair applications do not make even a single change in the original Zip file.