Unpacking a file fails.
THE COMMON CAUSES
The archive is corrupt, usually from an interrupted transfer Disk space ran out during extraction Inode limit reached A timeout on a large archive Permissions preventing writing
CHECKING THE ARCHIVE
Open it on your own computer first. If it fails there, the file is corrupt and needs transferring again.
Compare the file size on the server against the original.
DISK AND INODES
Extraction creates many files. An archive that fits may still fail because extracting it exceeds your inode allowance.
Check both before extracting anything large.
TIMEOUTS
cPanel File Manager may time out on very large archives.
Extract over SSH instead, which has no such limit.
PERMISSIONS
The destination must be writable.
FOR VERY LARGE ARCHIVES
Split them, or extract in sections over SSH.
AFTER PARTIAL EXTRACTION
Remove what was extracted before retrying, or you will have a mixture of old and new files.
