windows cannot complete the extraction – Password Recovery https://www.top-password.com/blog Provide useful password recovery tricks, guides and software Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:28:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 Fix the Error “Windows cannot complete the extraction. The destination file could not be created” https://www.top-password.com/blog/fix-the-error-windows-cannot-complete-the-extraction-the-destination-file-could-not-be-created/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:28:32 +0000 http://www.top-password.com/blog/?p=5018 Windows has built-in support for zip files. It can create, extract, browse through zip files which is a nice feature but this feature can also give you troubles in some situations.

When you try to open a .zip file you’ve downloaded using Windows Explorer, you might receive the follow error:

“Windows cannot complete the extraction. The destination file could not be created.”

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By default, Windows will extract the files into the temp folder when you double-click on a .zip file to open it for viewing. This error means there is a problem with the permissions of the temp folder.

Here is a workaround:

  1. Move the .zip file into one of your user profile sub-folders, like Downloads, Documents, Pictures, etc.
  2. Right-click on the .zip file and select “Extract All”. This allows you to decompress all of the files into a folder of your choice.

Actually this problem has been faced by lots of Windows users. If you open the zip file with some third-party tools such as 7-zip or WinRAR, every file could be opened without error.

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