Cannot open large concatenated zip file with unzip, though it opened fine with Archive Utility, get a central directory error

Try

zip -F science_team_meeting_archive.zip -O science_team_meeting_archive.fixed.zip

If that doesn't work, you just need more 'F's

zip -FF science_team_meeting_archive.zip -O science_team_meeting_archive.fixed.zip

If either of these work, you then unzip normally with:

unzip science_team_meeting_archive.fixed.zip 

For more info about this, use:

man zip

7z x

I had the same issue with unzip %x on Linux for a .zip file larger than 4GB, compounded with a only DEFLATED entries can have EXT descriptor error.

The command 7z x resolved all my issues though.

Be careful though, the command 7z x will extract all files with a path rooted in the current directory. The option -o allows to specify an output directory.

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