Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Centra

  • Sorry for beating a dead horse here, but I found a lot of info on this topic, (too much) and the suggestions that I found don’t really seem to provide a clear solution. It’s try this, or maybe that, works for some but not for others. Maybe I haven’t found the correct answer here in the forum (yet) but I have been searching and trying DIY for 2 days and just can’t make it work. Where can I find the latest and greatest solution to this issue? Please help.
    I am getting the same error on 3 different blogs but for different plugins: “Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature”
    Plenty of disk space, all are 3.2.1, tried FTP and that isn’t even working anymore, all three are hosted on aplus.net and their tech support says it’s a WP issue that they can’t help me with.

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  • Thread Starter Dr. Karl Ruegg

    (@karlruegg)

    Ok, here is the status. Out of the 1 plugin (WP Security Scan 3.0.7) that I have been trying to install on 12 different blogs for some reason 7 are up and running, but 5 are still causing the “Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature” error. I don’t know why the other 7 are working and these 5 aren’t. When I unpack the zip to desktop and upload with FileZilla to the plugins folder the plugin doesn’t show up in the plugin list as deactivated to be activated. The zip issue wouldn’t be such a pain if I could get the FTP install to work…

    Thread Starter Dr. Karl Ruegg

    (@karlruegg)

    Update. I finally got Aplus.net to take a closer look and they repaired the changes I had made for the file permissions. Next I will try to install the plugins and themes again to see if the repairs helped. Stay tuned.

    Thread Starter Dr. Karl Ruegg

    (@karlruegg)

    Yes! Success. Things are starting to normalize. Still having issues installing Themes. WP will delete most of the files and folders, but then gives an error message that it can’t install new theme because old theme couldn’t be completely removed. Using FTP the old theme folder is still there. After deleting that folder it is possible to install the new theme.

    That sounds like you still have a folder ownership issue – which, again, is something that your hosts would have to fix.

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