I guess the most simple explanation is that this is not a 7z Archive, have you 
tried the normal zip archives instead? (The 7zip program supports multiple 
formats)

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Von: Dan Tran <[email protected]>
Gesendet: Samstag, August 4, 2018 6:27 PM
An: Commons Users List
Betreff: Re: Unpacking VMDK via 7z

here is the stack trace

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Bad 7z signature
at 
org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.sevenz.SevenZFile.readHeaders(SevenZFile.java:326)
at 
org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.sevenz.SevenZFile.<init>(SevenZFile.java:241)
at 
org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.sevenz.SevenZFile.<init>(SevenZFile.java:108)
at 
org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.sevenz.SevenZFile.<init>(SevenZFile.java:262)


Thanks

-D

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 11:21 PM, Dan Tran <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a vmware's vmdk file with no problem to unpack using my windows 7z
> command
>
> however, common-compress error out at
>
> SevenZFile sevenZFile = new SevenZFile(my.vmdk.file)
>
> with "Bad 7z signature" error message
>
> am I missing something obvious?
>
> Thanks
>
> -D
>

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