jman98

I purchased the deluxe edition of Band On The Run and had the same problems as everyone else in trying to extract it. Top Spin sent me a link to the Limited and Unlimited files as separate archives and I was finally able to unzip them, but only on a Mac. I had to use the Archive utility to do it. This is what the situation seems to be: 1) Some versions of Windows may have problems with the big 5+ GB archive of everything, but the large file size is not the main problem here. 2) I do not have a free version of Zip made by the Info Zip people that understands how to extract these Zip archives. I tried on Windows and Mac and every free version of Zip I used did not have a clue about how to handle the archive. 3) It would appear that Top Spin is using some kind of option in making the Zip archives that is completely incompatible with older versions of Zip and may in fact only work on commercial versions of Zip. 4) I found a link on Top Spin's website that suggested using Archive on Mac to extract the files that worked. Their suggestion for Windows is to use WinZip. I can assure you that older versions of WinZip, which are all I have, absolutely do not work on these archives. The Top Spin website contains no helpful information as to what version does actually work under Windows. I cannot guarantee you that if you pay to upgrade WinZip that it will work, but it might. 5) The 2 separate archives they gave me of the Limited and Unlimited files extract to the exact same directory name. Since the files are named the same within the archives, they will overwrite unless you extract one and rename its directory. I did not try to extract the original 5+ GB archive but I'm seeing some evidence in it that it was not made correctly and the Limited and Unlimited files may also overwrite each other if you try to extract it. Not sure, but it seems that may be the case. I joined this website simply to pass on this information in the hopes that if nothing else it might at least give some hope to people who have Macs that they can indeed extract the files.