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  "id": 3983,
  "title": "Can't open data file image_gender",
  "url": "/competitions/icdar2013-gender-prediction-from-handwriting/discussion/3983",
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  "post_date": "2013-03-06T11:59:56.640Z",
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  "content": "<p>Hello,</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>I've downloaded the file image_gender.zip but I wasn't able to unzip it, every time I get the following error:</p>\r\n<pre>images_gender.zip: The archive is either in unknown format or damaged</pre>\r\n<pre>Were anyone able to successfully extract it?</pre>\r\n<pre>&nbsp;</pre>\r\n<pre>Regards,</pre>",
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      "id": "21091",
      "postDate": "03/06/2013 11:59:56",
      "content": "<p>Hello,</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>I've downloaded the file image_gender.zip but I wasn't able to unzip it, every time I get the following error:</p>\r\n<pre>images_gender.zip: The archive is either in unknown format or damaged</pre>\r\n<pre>Were anyone able to successfully extract it?</pre>\r\n<pre>&nbsp;</pre>\r\n<pre>Regards,</pre>",
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      "id": "21096",
      "postDate": "03/06/2013 13:59:45",
      "content": "<p>This usually happens when the download did not complete successfully, in other words, you need to use a reliable download manager such as &quot;Internet Download Manager&quot; for downloading large files.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "21102",
      "postDate": "03/06/2013 17:30:49",
      "content": "<p>I agree with Issam.</p>\r\n<p>If you don't want to redownload, you could try repairing the file you downloaded using a tool like\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diskinternals.com/zip-repair/\">zip-repair</a>.</p>",
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      "id": "21136",
      "postDate": "03/07/2013 08:32:00",
      "content": "<p>We had so far at least two requests saying that&nbsp;images_gender.zip is damaged. While we look into this, please try this&nbsp;<a href=\"http://goo.gl/I22qy\">alternative download link</a>&nbsp;which we have checked. (the link is also in the data page)</p>",
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      "id": "21137",
      "postDate": "03/07/2013 10:18:04",
      "content": "<p>You could also download&nbsp;<a href=\"http://goo.gl/PP1wX\">this</a>&nbsp;300dpi version of images (which is generally enough for such tasks).</p>",
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      "id": "21185",
      "postDate": "03/08/2013 22:53:25",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Ali Hassaïne;21137]</p>\r\n<p>You could also download&nbsp;<a href=\"http://goo.gl/PP1wX\">this</a>&nbsp;300dpi version of images (which is generally enough for such tasks).</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>I agree that 300 dpi is probably enough.But could you post that file on the kaggle server?</p>\r\n<p>I could download all the other files very quickly, but that one tops at 80kb/s which would take me 11 hours to download.</p>",
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      "id": "21220",
      "postDate": "03/11/2013 08:09:00",
      "content": "<p>I tried a few times uploading it into kaggle but I did not manage to...</p>\r\n<p style=\"direction:ltr\"><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">In case you still need that file, I just finished uploading it into\r\n</span><a href=\"http://goo.gl/E9iCr\" style=\"line-height:1.4em\">dropbox</a><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">.\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"direction:ltr\"><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">EDIT: This link has been temporarily suspended by dropbox for generating excessive traffic. We will look for another solution.</span></p>",
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    {
      "id": "21249",
      "postDate": "03/12/2013 17:01:39",
      "content": "<p>the dropbox link seems working</p>",
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    {
      "id": "21349",
      "postDate": "03/16/2013 07:25:03",
      "content": "<p>Now hosted on this <a href=\"http://goo.gl/zaJdZ\">Google Drive</a> link.</p>",
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      "id": "21354",
      "postDate": "03/16/2013 16:38:26",
      "content": "<p><strong>Finally succeeded in extracting the images:</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>% jar xf images_gender.zip<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p>I've downloaded on several different environments (Solaris SPARC, Linux, Windows XP) and am unable to extract.&nbsp; I think the problem is that the file size is probably too big for most implementations of zip (2GB) to seek out to the end to find the directory\r\n table.&nbsp; Suggest that maybe splitting it up into a number of smaller files, or using alternate packaging (e.g., tar with gzip) could be considered.</p>",
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      "id": "21409",
      "postDate": "03/19/2013 10:47:46",
      "content": "<p>Sorry for keeping you waiting.</p>\r\n<p>Just uploaded splitted version of the images on the data page.</p>",
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      "id": "36903",
      "postDate": "01/02/2014 04:12:06",
      "content": "<p>How about <a href=\"http://www.yiigo.com/guides/csharp/how-to-create-web-viewer.shtml\">building web image viewer</a> to help open and display image files? I am not so sure about it, but I hope you success. Good luck.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Best regards,</p>\n<p>Arron</p>",
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      "id": "41111",
      "postDate": "03/28/2014 03:23:51",
      "content": "<p>[quote=arron wall;36903]</p>\n<p>How about <a href=\"http://www.rasteredge.com/dotnet-imaging/web-document-viewer.shtml\">building web image viewer</a> to help open and display image files? I am not so sure about it, but I hope you success. Good luck.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>web image viewer is a good tool to open and display image in all kinds of formats. if this can be used on this situation , then we will save a lot of time and get little error. thank you.</p>",
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      "postDate": "05/31/2019 02:01:12",
      "content": "<p>I am unable to download dataset. can anyone please share an alternative download link?</p>",
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      "author_name": "issamlaradji",
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      "post_date": "03/06/2013 13:59:45",
      "content": "<p>This usually happens when the download did not complete successfully, in other words, you need to use a reliable download manager such as &quot;Internet Download Manager&quot; for downloading large files.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "author_name": "ahassaine",
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      "post_date": "03/06/2013 17:30:49",
      "content": "<p>I agree with Issam.</p>\r\n<p>If you don't want to redownload, you could try repairing the file you downloaded using a tool like\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diskinternals.com/zip-repair/\">zip-repair</a>.</p>",
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      "author_name": "ahassaine",
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      "post_date": "03/07/2013 08:32:00",
      "content": "<p>We had so far at least two requests saying that&nbsp;images_gender.zip is damaged. While we look into this, please try this&nbsp;<a href=\"http://goo.gl/I22qy\">alternative download link</a>&nbsp;which we have checked. (the link is also in the data page)</p>",
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      "author_name": "ahassaine",
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      "post_date": "03/07/2013 10:18:04",
      "content": "<p>You could also download&nbsp;<a href=\"http://goo.gl/PP1wX\">this</a>&nbsp;300dpi version of images (which is generally enough for such tasks).</p>",
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      "id": 21185,
      "author_name": "benoitplante",
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      "post_date": "03/08/2013 22:53:25",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Ali Hassaïne;21137]</p>\r\n<p>You could also download&nbsp;<a href=\"http://goo.gl/PP1wX\">this</a>&nbsp;300dpi version of images (which is generally enough for such tasks).</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>I agree that 300 dpi is probably enough.But could you post that file on the kaggle server?</p>\r\n<p>I could download all the other files very quickly, but that one tops at 80kb/s which would take me 11 hours to download.</p>",
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      "author_name": "ahassaine",
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      "content": "<p>I tried a few times uploading it into kaggle but I did not manage to...</p>\r\n<p style=\"direction:ltr\"><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">In case you still need that file, I just finished uploading it into\r\n</span><a href=\"http://goo.gl/E9iCr\" style=\"line-height:1.4em\">dropbox</a><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">.\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"direction:ltr\"><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">EDIT: This link has been temporarily suspended by dropbox for generating excessive traffic. We will look for another solution.</span></p>",
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      "id": 21249,
      "author_name": "weizhezhang",
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      "post_date": "03/12/2013 17:01:39",
      "content": "<p>the dropbox link seems working</p>",
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      "id": 21349,
      "author_name": "ahassaine",
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      "post_date": "03/16/2013 07:25:03",
      "content": "<p>Now hosted on this <a href=\"http://goo.gl/zaJdZ\">Google Drive</a> link.</p>",
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      "id": 21354,
      "author_name": "karlnyberg",
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      "post_date": "03/16/2013 16:38:26",
      "content": "<p><strong>Finally succeeded in extracting the images:</strong></p>\r\n<p><strong>% jar xf images_gender.zip<br>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p>I've downloaded on several different environments (Solaris SPARC, Linux, Windows XP) and am unable to extract.&nbsp; I think the problem is that the file size is probably too big for most implementations of zip (2GB) to seek out to the end to find the directory\r\n table.&nbsp; Suggest that maybe splitting it up into a number of smaller files, or using alternate packaging (e.g., tar with gzip) could be considered.</p>",
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      "id": 21409,
      "author_name": "ahassaine",
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      "post_date": "03/19/2013 10:47:46",
      "content": "<p>Sorry for keeping you waiting.</p>\r\n<p>Just uploaded splitted version of the images on the data page.</p>",
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      "post_date": "01/02/2014 04:12:06",
      "content": "<p>How about <a href=\"http://www.yiigo.com/guides/csharp/how-to-create-web-viewer.shtml\">building web image viewer</a> to help open and display image files? I am not so sure about it, but I hope you success. Good luck.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Best regards,</p>\n<p>Arron</p>",
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