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  "id": 9510,
  "title": "difficulty with tar archive",
  "url": "/competitions/seizure-detection/discussion/9510",
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  "post_date": "2014-06-21T14:36:46.220Z",
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  "content": "<p>Is anyone else having trouble unzipping the clips.tar.gz file?&nbsp; I have tried to download it several times but I keep getting an &quot;Unexpected EOF in archive&quot; error from tar (GNU tar version1.27.1).</p>\n\n<p>Is there an MD5 checksum for the original file that I could use to check for corruption during download or saving?</p>",
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      "id": "49360",
      "postDate": "06/21/2014 14:36:46",
      "content": "<p>Is anyone else having trouble unzipping the clips.tar.gz file?&nbsp; I have tried to download it several times but I keep getting an &quot;Unexpected EOF in archive&quot; error from tar (GNU tar version1.27.1).</p>\n\n<p>Is there an MD5 checksum for the original file that I could use to check for corruption during download or saving?</p>",
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      "id": "49383",
      "postDate": "06/22/2014 16:39:36",
      "content": "<p>Hi REZ. Archive I downloaded works fine for me.</p>\n\n<p>md5sum clips.tar.gz gives me <strong>8d6ff9276da16aed564f90f2dbd3541e</strong></p>\n<p>du clips.tar.gz gives me <strong>11348704</strong></p>",
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      "id": "49384",
      "postDate": "06/22/2014 16:56:34",
      "content": "<p>Thanks. The last eight bytes are truncated each time I download. &nbsp;I will try using another connection.&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "49486",
      "postDate": "06/24/2014 17:20:29",
      "content": "<p>Yes, even I had checksum error...Most of the time is getting wasted in this kind of stuff!</p>",
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      "id": "49489",
      "postDate": "06/24/2014 17:42:18",
      "content": "<p>BTW, I also faced an issue with chrome -- failed download due to disk full--(where the disk is certainly not full)...anyways, I have installed firefox now, along with a download accelerator plugin, and trying to download with it..</p>",
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      "id": "49589",
      "postDate": "06/25/2014 21:43:50",
      "content": "<p>See also <a href=\"http://www.kaggle.com/c/decoding-the-human-brain/forums/t/7803/tips-for-downloading-the-data/42610\">this post</a>&nbsp;for information on downloading Kaggles files with DownThemAll + Firefox, or wget.</p>",
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      "id": "49752",
      "postDate": "06/28/2014 04:16:19",
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      "postDate": "06/28/2014 04:16:57",
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      "id": "51456",
      "postDate": "08/01/2014 06:04:46",
      "content": "<p>I am also having trouble accessing contents of this zipped file. I extracted it with 7-zip, which returns a file named clip of file type: file!!! I am lost here.</p>",
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      "id": "51464",
      "postDate": "08/01/2014 08:41:17",
      "content": "<p>Try renaming the downloaded file to: &quot;clips.tar.gz&quot; before extracting. If that doesn't work please mention some context, like your operating system, so we can debug this.</p>",
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      "id": "51471",
      "postDate": "08/01/2014 11:23:21",
      "content": "<p>yeah the problem is resolved. extracted the file obtained from first extraction and could access the data. The downloaded file was named 'clips.gz' and not 'clips.tar.gz'. so was expecting data after 1st extraction only.</p>",
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      "id": "51475",
      "postDate": "08/01/2014 11:58:40",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Surbhi Gupta;51471]</p>\n<p>yeah the problem is resolved. extracted the file obtained from first extraction and could access the data. The downloaded file was named 'clips.gz' and not 'clips.tar.gz'. so was expecting data after 1st extraction only.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>If you rename the downloaded file to clips.tar.gz you can extract in 1 go. Glad to hear it's solved now.</p>",
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      "id": "51551",
      "postDate": "08/03/2014 15:05:07",
      "content": "<p>Internet Explorer was [slightly] slower than Google Chrome in downloading the clips.gz file on a Windows 7 laptop.</p>\n<p>Extraction of the clips.gz file using WinRAR program gave a huge no-extension file. After renaming the clips.gz file as clips.tar.gz, the extraction gave several .mat files.</p>",
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      "id": 49383,
      "author_name": "quantumdamage",
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      "post_date": "06/22/2014 16:39:36",
      "content": "<p>Hi REZ. Archive I downloaded works fine for me.</p>\n\n<p>md5sum clips.tar.gz gives me <strong>8d6ff9276da16aed564f90f2dbd3541e</strong></p>\n<p>du clips.tar.gz gives me <strong>11348704</strong></p>",
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      "id": 49384,
      "author_name": "rez1985",
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      "post_date": "06/22/2014 16:56:34",
      "content": "<p>Thanks. The last eight bytes are truncated each time I download. &nbsp;I will try using another connection.&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": 49486,
      "author_name": "rcompetitor",
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      "post_date": "06/24/2014 17:20:29",
      "content": "<p>Yes, even I had checksum error...Most of the time is getting wasted in this kind of stuff!</p>",
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      "id": 49489,
      "author_name": "rcompetitor",
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      "post_date": "06/24/2014 17:42:18",
      "content": "<p>BTW, I also faced an issue with chrome -- failed download due to disk full--(where the disk is certainly not full)...anyways, I have installed firefox now, along with a download accelerator plugin, and trying to download with it..</p>",
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      "id": 49589,
      "author_name": "triskelion",
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      "post_date": "06/25/2014 21:43:50",
      "content": "<p>See also <a href=\"http://www.kaggle.com/c/decoding-the-human-brain/forums/t/7803/tips-for-downloading-the-data/42610\">this post</a>&nbsp;for information on downloading Kaggles files with DownThemAll + Firefox, or wget.</p>",
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      "author_name": "devpat",
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      "post_date": "06/28/2014 04:16:19",
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      "author_name": "surbhig",
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      "post_date": "08/01/2014 06:04:46",
      "content": "<p>I am also having trouble accessing contents of this zipped file. I extracted it with 7-zip, which returns a file named clip of file type: file!!! I am lost here.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>Try renaming the downloaded file to: &quot;clips.tar.gz&quot; before extracting. If that doesn't work please mention some context, like your operating system, so we can debug this.</p>",
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      "author_name": "surbhig",
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      "post_date": "08/01/2014 11:23:21",
      "content": "<p>yeah the problem is resolved. extracted the file obtained from first extraction and could access the data. The downloaded file was named 'clips.gz' and not 'clips.tar.gz'. so was expecting data after 1st extraction only.</p>",
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