How To Unzip A DoT BIN File MacBook

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irnbru

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The kind folk at Avtex have sent me a brand new upgrade file for my snipe 2 but I can't for the life of me get it to open.

Someone must know here :-)
 
Thanks Robert but its just creating a new zipped file with the extension cpgz.
 
Are you sure you need to extract it? It could just be the firmware binary which you need to install to the snipe using some software or other.
 
klaatu said:
Are you sure you need to extract it? It could just be the firmware binary which you need to install to the snipe using some software or other.
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Just tried it thanks but no good so it needs to be unzipped.

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irnbru said:
Just tried it thanks but no good so it needs to be unzipped.
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If you right-click on the file does it give you an "Open With" option and "Archive Utility.app" from the list of options?
If so, do that into a folder of the same name as the bin file.
 
Gellyneck said:
If you right-click on the file does it give you an "Open With" option and "Archive Utility.app" from the list of options?
If so, do that into a folder of the same name as the bin file.
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Tried that to start with :-( Thatalso creates another zipped bin file with cpgz at the end.
 
irnbru said:
Tried that to start with :-( Thatalso creates another zipped bin file with cpgz at the end.
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If you right click that file and run Archive Utility does it convert it back to a bin or zip or zip.cpgz file?
If so, the file is probably corrupt.
Are you able to check the MD5 or SHA-1 of the file? Did Avtex give you that info?
 
Gellyneck said:
If you right click that file and run Archive Utility does it convert it back to a bin or zip or zip.cpgz file?
If so, the file is probably corrupt.
Are you able to check the MD5 or SHA-1 of the file? Did Avtex give you that?
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I don't think its corrupt. I had the same hassle last time with MacBook, and my neighbour opened it with his windows pc in seconds.

See my last image of what happens.
 
Gellyneck said:
If you right click that file and run Archive Utility does it convert it back to a bin or zip or zip.cpgz file?
If so, the file is probably corrupt.
Are you able to check the MD5 or SHA-1 of the file? Did Avtex give you that info?
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Double dutch to me but heres the info.

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irnbru said:
I don't think its corrupt. I had the same hassle last time with MacBook, and my neighbour opened it with his windows pc in seconds.

See my last image of what happens.
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Is it definitely a MacBinary file and not a Windows executable BIN file? If your neighbour opened it in Windows the last time I'm reckoning on it's the latter.
 
As you only need to unzip the file and put it in the root directory of the flash drive. Can you unzip a standard windows zip file on a Mac, if so just download the zip file from the SelfSat website.
 
Lenny HB said:
As you only need to unzip the file and put it in the root directory of the flash drive. Can you unzip a standard windows zip file on a Mac, if so just download the zip file from the SelfSat website.
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Its not on their website yet. Its a brand new update I had emailed to me.
 
I'm convinced that's the firmware file and not a Mac archive file. If you go to the firmware download page - - and download the upgrade file, you get a zip file, which when unzipped gives a file called fwupdate.bin

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klaatu said:
I'm convinced that's the firmware file and not a Mac archive file. If you go to the firmware download page - - and download the upgrade file, you get a zip file, which when unzipped gives a file called fwupdate.bin
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The file I want to open is update.bin...which I can't .
 
irnbru said:
The file I want to open is update.bin...which I can't .
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Oh, OK. It just looks like it's called fwupdate.bin from your screenshots. I'm sure you don't need to open it on your Mac. If it's not working as is, then it's probably corrupt.
 
klaatu said:
Oh, OK. It just looks like it's called fwupdate.bin from your screenshots. I'm sure you don't need to open it on your Mac. If it's not working as is, then it's probably corrupt.
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I've checked the MD5 for Sandra and it's OK.
I've also said just to copy the file into the root of a USB and it should run but Sandra says it doesn't. Any other ideas?
 
No its definitely not corrupt. @Gellyneck has opened it.

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klaatu said:
Oh, OK. It just looks like it's called fwupdate.bin from your screenshots. I'm sure you don't need to open it on your Mac. If it's not working as is, then it's probably corrupt.
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See, told you so!:p:giggle:
 
Gellyneck said:
I've checked the MD5 for Sandra and it's OK.
I've also said just to copy the file into the root of a USB and it should run but Sandra says it doesn't. Any other ideas?
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Ive just tried it yet again and it just does not run. It knows the usb is connected and goes into upgrade mode but then hangs, ...cos it can't read the zip I guess.
 
irnbru said:
Ive just tried it yet again and it just does not run. It knows the usb is connected and goes into upgrade mode but then hangs, ...cos it can't read the zip I guess.
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The file is definitely in the root of the usb drive?
 

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