Recovery Toolbox for ZIP

Archiving your files is still a very useful and efficient way to back up important data. But, unfortunately, the archive files themselves can be damaged or corrupted during events like virus infections, hard drive failures, abrupt shutdowns or other software and hardware malfunctions.

But fear not, for your files may not be forever lost. There are plenty of programs which can repair broken archives, and Recovery Toolbox for ZIP is one of them.

As its name suggests, Recovery Toolbox for ZIP only works with ZIP files. For example, if you want to repair a broken RAR archive, you’ll probably have to look for another program. But Recovery Toolbox for ZIP has an easy-to-use minimalistic interface, so at least the recovery process will be a very intuitive one.

First, you need to select the archive that is corrupted or damaged. The program analyzes it to determine exactly what it contains. At the end of the analysis, you’ll know which files can be recovered, which of them cannot be recovered at all and for which of them the recovery is possible (sort of!). Yes, Recovery Toolbox for ZIP can be unsure about some files, but you have to admire its honesty and the fact that it doesn’t give up until it has tried everything.

Recovery Toolbox for ZIP can be used to fix a great number of errors associated with damaged or corrupt ZIP files. It can restore data from archives larger than 2 GB and also extract files from truncated archives; these even include ZIPs that haven’t been downloaded completely.

But, as I’ve stated in the beginning of the article, there are already many other programs that you can use to fix archives. Some of them have similar features and functions, and a lot of them come as free tools. Recovery Toolbox for ZIP’s price may be a bit too high for what it offers.