unzipfile issue

[Ijaz Ali]

Hello to all,
I am trying to unzip a file, "LFSDATA2010-2014.zip" . I am using Stata 14.0. But Stata returned the message
"cannot open LFSDATA2010-2014.zip or LFSDATA2010-2014.zip.
zip could not perform unzip"

I used these Syntax,

cd "D:\rough"

unzipfile "LFSDATA2010-2014.zip",replace

unzipfile "LFSDATA2010-2014.zip"


Note: The file contains four years data in SPSS format, I mean four sub spss files.

[William Lisowski]

Are you able to unzip the archive some other way? Perhaps it has password protection, or some other problem.

[Ijaz Ali]

Dear William Lisowski,
Thanks for your reply. Actually the folder was not zipped in standerd format. Therefore I first zipped and then unzipped through the following syntax. and it's worked


global mydata "C:\Users\Ijaz Ali\Downloads\Documents"

zipfile "lfs2012-13.sav" "lfs2012-13.sav" "lfs2013-14.sav" "lfs2014-15.sav" , saving("lfsdata.zip")

unzipfile lfsdata.zip