Failed to extract file.

[Reminiscence0]

Hello. I'm trying to extract cab files from an InstallShield installer.
Link: https://www.kodensha.jp/sstec/update/jb/jb7up.exe
First, I extracted the executable using isx.exe. I got data1.cab, data2.cab, etc.
Then, running "unshield -d output x data1.cab", I got a error message:
extracting: out/JCMAIN/jcmain.DDB
Failed to extract file 'jcmain.DDB'.Run unshield again with -D 3 for more information.
Am I doing something wrong? Please give me some suggestion. Thanks.

[twogood]

So what output do you get when your run with -D 3 ?

[twogood]

You could also try the -O parameter, it means Use old compression

[Reminiscence0]

Option "-D 3" outputs lots of messages flashing away quickly.
Option "-D 2" outputs "[unshield_file_save:749] Decompression failed with code -3.".
I tried extract with"-O", but the program crashed right after the line " extracting: out/JCMAIN/jcmain.DDB".

[twogood]

code -3 usually means that -O should work :)

But I'll have to check these myself then.

[Reminiscence0]

I checked the version of I'm using is "1.4". And the latest version in Github release is "1.4.3".
Could this be the reason I'm getting errors? If it is so, where can I download the latest version?
The "download page" link in readme expired and automatically deleted.

[twogood]

The Windows version of unshield is a mess, sorry about that.

[twogood]

I will try with the latest code.

[twogood]

There are some fixes regarding character encoding that might be relevant when you download from .jp?

[Reminiscence0]

It might not be the problem of character encoding. This error file contains only ASCII characters ("JCMAIN/jcmain.DDB"), and all the other files with similar name ("JCMAIN/jcmain.DIC") extracted with no error.
Anyway, thanks for your investigation in advance :)

[twogood]

But if you are on Windows why not just run the installer?

[Reminiscence0]

The file I'm trying to extract is an update file installer. I reinstalled the OS a year ago, and some registry of installation gone with the previous OS. When I run the updator, it shows me the program is not installed. I also can't found the install disk of main program which I bought over six years ago. So I want to extract the update files and patch them manully.

[kpyrkosz]

Is the size of one of the cabfiles bigger than 2GB? If so that's the problem on windows. Did you try unpacking on bsd/linux?

[twogood]

@kpyrkosz jb7up.exe is 129 127 321 bytes, so that should be fine

[twogood]

I had some problems getting the data2.cab from jb7up.exe but in the end I got these files and could extract them:

Sizes:

513208 data1.cab
26602 data1.hdr
126144698 data2.cab

MD5 sums:

d79e4d1403e01828710a142c9b142eef data1.cab
08dfee0adeca298e1a3cfae8eb1a69d3 data1.hdr
93542b855b274fd1fa4cce412ea93674 data2.cab

Output:

unshield -d extracted x data1.cab
Cabinet: data1.cab
  extracting: extracted/CJDLL/KodenshaCjDllV7.dll
  extracting: extracted/JCMAIN/jcmain.DDB
  extracting: extracted/JCMAIN/jcmain.DIC
  extracting: extracted/_Support_0x0411_Files/_isres_0x0411.dll
  extracting: extracted/_Support_Non-SelfRegistering/isrt.dll
  extracting: extracted/_Support_Non-SelfRegistering/default.pal
  extracting: extracted/_Support_Misc_i64_Support_Files/ISBEW64.exe
  extracting: extracted/CW_LTB5IME_64/B5IMEL2.IME
  extracting: extracted/jBeijing7_64bit/JBCJT.dll
  extracting: extracted/jBeijing7_64bit/Addins/TARO/JSTRADD.exe
  extracting: extracted/jBeijing7_64bit/Addins/JB7Addins_AUSw.exe
  extracting: extracted/jBeijing7_64bit/Addins/Jb7Addins_A.exe
  extracting: extracted/jBeijing7_64bit/Addins/Jb7Addins_U.exe
  extracting: extracted/jBeijing7_64bit/Addins/TrustInstaller.dll
  extracting: extracted/jBeijing7_64bit/Addins/JBV7OA.exe
  extracting: extracted/jBeijing7_64bit/Addins/WORD_JB7.DOT
  extracting: extracted/CJDLL_64bit/KodenshaCjDllV7.dll
  extracting: extracted/_Support_Misc_x64_Support_Files/ISBEW64.exe
  extracting: extracted/ROBOWORD_SYSTEM64/Rm64.dll
  extracting: extracted/ROBOWORD_SYSTEM64/Rm64.exe
  extracting: extracted/_Support_Build_Generated_Support_Files/FontData.ini
  extracting: extracted/_Support_Build_Generated_Support_Files/DIFxData.ini
  extracting: extracted/CW_LTB5IME/B5IMEL2.IME
  extracting: extracted/JCTXHex/JCTSHEX7.dll
  extracting: extracted/CW_LTGBIME_64/ugbimel2.IME
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/transpdf.exe
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/CjDic.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/JCT.exe
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/JbNavi.exe
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/ChnGen.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/ExcelTMI.exe
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/JBCJT.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/JBJCT.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/JBV7_PDFmanual.pdf
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/JCTFILET.exe
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/TeamViewer - _l_b_g_o_R___p_\_R_____u_____i_____[_g_R___g___[___j_\_t_g.url
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/TranslateMemoryCJ.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/TranslateMemoryCJWS2.exe
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/BunreiJc_Z.DDB
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/BunreiJc_Z.DIC
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/JCFRDIC.DDB
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/JCFRDIC.DIC
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/cwcdic.dic
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/cwcjdic.dic
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/ffc.idx
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/fmemdic.dat
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/omiai.dic
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/omiai.idx
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/omiaiidx.idx
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/ssknecbg.dat
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/ssknecbg.idx
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/zfc.idx
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/SYSTEMDIC/zmemdic.dat
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/ExcelJB7.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/ExcelJB7_2007.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/ExcelJB7_2007.dll.manifest
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/ExcelJB7_2007.vsto
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/ExcelJB7_2010.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/ExcelJB7_2010.dll.manifest
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/ExcelJB7_2010.vsto
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/ExcelJB7_2013.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/ExcelJB7_2013.dll.manifest
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/ExcelJB7_2013.vsto
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Excel_JB7.xla
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/JBV7OA.exe
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Jb7Addins_A.exe
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Jb7Addins_U.exe
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.v4.0.Utilities.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.v4.0.Utilities.xml
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/PP_JB7.ppt
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/PowerPointJB7.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/PowerPointJB7_2007.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/PowerPointJB7_2007.dll.manifest
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/PowerPointJB7_2007.vsto
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/PowerPointJB7_2010.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/PowerPointJB7_2010.dll.manifest
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/PowerPointJB7_2010.vsto
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/PowerPointJB7_2013.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/PowerPointJB7_2013.dll.manifest
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/PowerPointJB7_2013.vsto
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/TrustInstaller.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/WORD_JB7.DOT
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/WordJB7.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/WordJB7_2007.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/WordJB7_2007.dll.manifest
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/WordJB7_2007.vsto
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/WordJB7_2010.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/WordJB7_2010.dll.manifest
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/WordJB7_2010.vsto
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/WordJB7_2013.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/WordJB7_2013.dll.manifest
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/WordJB7_2013.vsto
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.Office.Interop.SmartTag.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.v9.0.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.Office.Tools.v9.0.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.Vbe.Interop.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.HostAdapter.v9.0.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Hosting.v9.0.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.v9.0.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.ServerDocument.v9.0.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Runtime.v9.0.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/Office.dll
  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/Addins/TARO/JSTRADD.exe
  extracting: extracted/CW_LT/UDICB5/CwL2B5u.ADC
  extracting: extracted/CW_LT/UDICB5/CwL2B5u.SDC
  extracting: extracted/CW_LT/UDICGB/CwL2GBu.ADC
  extracting: extracted/CW_LT/UDICGB/CwL2GBu.SDC
  extracting: extracted/CW_LT/UDic_Original/UDICB5/CwL2B5u.ADC
  extracting: extracted/CW_LT/UDic_Original/UDICB5/CwL2B5u.SDC
  extracting: extracted/CW_LT/UDic_Original/UDICB5/CwL2B5u.dic
  extracting: extracted/CW_LT/UDic_Original/UDICGB/CwL2GBu.ADC
  extracting: extracted/CW_LT/UDic_Original/UDICGB/CwL2GBu.SDC
  extracting: extracted/CW_LT/UDic_Original/UDICGB/CwL2GBu.dic
  extracting: extracted/CW_LTGBIME/ugbimel2.IME
  extracting: extracted/CW_LTSYS32/CWBuCodeLT.dll
  extracting: extracted/_Support_Misc_Support_Files/corecomp.ini
  extracting: extracted/_Support_Misc_Support_Files/dotnetinstaller.exe
  extracting: extracted/CW_LTSYS64/CWBuCodeLT.dll
  extracting: extracted/JCTXHex_64bit/JCTSHEX7.dll
  extracting: extracted/_Support_Language_Independent_OS_Independent_Files/license.rtf
  extracting: extracted/ROBOWORD_SYSTEM/RmNT.dll
  extracting: extracted/ROBOWORD_SYSTEM/RmNT.exe
  extracting: extracted/ROBOWORD_SYSTEM/TcHkMsRd.dll
  extracting: extracted/ROBOWORD_SYSTEM/TcHook32.dll
  extracting: extracted/ROBOWORD_SYSTEM/TcNls.dll
  extracting: extracted/ROBOWORD_SYSTEM/TcRmApi.dll
  extracting: extracted/_Support_0x0411_String_Tables/StringTable_0x0411.ips
 --------  -------
          130 files

Process finished with exit code 0

[twogood]

@kpyrkosz Could you provide an MS Windows build of unshield main branch for @Reminiscence0 ?

[twogood]

Using parameter -e CP932 will extract the TeamViewer.url file with the right encoding on Linux:

  extracting: extracted/JBeijing7/TeamViewer - ネット経由のパソコン遠隔操作（リモートコントロール）ソフト.url

[kpyrkosz]

Both builds (my fixed for windows + your master branch built with mingw) fail to extract the file with error:

Failed to extract file 'TeamViewer - âlâbâgîoùRé╠âpâ\âRâôëôèuæÇì∞üiâèâéü[âgâRâôâgâìü[âïüjâ\âtâg.url'.Run unshield again with -D 3 for more information.

Using -e CP932 prints out This version of Unshield is not built with encoding support. and exits.

[twogood]

Thanks a lot @kpyrkosz - very good information. Maybe this is the actual issue for @Reminiscence0?

[twogood]

Windows will certainly not like the backslashes in the file name and maybe not everything else either