Acidfree can`t to upload zip file

Same problem here. I'm pretty sure I tested zip upload earlier when i tried the Acidfree for the first time after installing it. It worked then. Now it doesn't and I have no clue why not. Tried different variations of packages, also tried to disable some of those modules below.

Here are some test results.

Installed for Acidfree:

Views: views-5.x-1.6.tar.gz
Image: image-5.x-1.4.tar.gz
Acidfree: acidfree-5.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz

Modules enabled:

Tracker 5.2 Enables tracking of recent posts for users. Depends on: Comment (enabled)
Upload 5.2 Allows users to upload and attach files to content.

Image 5.x-1.4 Allows uploading, resizing and viewing of images. Required by: Acidfree (enabled), Image Attach (enabled), Image Gallery (enabled), Image Import (enabled)
Image Attach 5.x-1.4 Allows easy attaching of image nodes to other content types. Depends on: Image (enabled)
Image Gallery 5.x-1.4 Allows sorting and displaying of image galleries based on categories. Depends on: Image (enabled), Taxonomy (enabled)
Image Import 5.x-1.4 Allows batches of images to be imported from a directory on the server. Depends on: Image (enabled)

Acidfree 5.x-1.x-dev A simple unified media management module for Image and Video modules Depends on: Taxonomy (enabled), Views (enabled), Image (enabled)
Filemanager 5.x-1.x-dev Adds support for a managed file repository for other modules.
IMCE 5.x-1.0 An image/file uploader and browser supporting personal directories and user quota.
Taxonomy Access Control 5.x-1.1 Access control for user roles based on taxonomy categories. Depends on: Taxonomy (enabled)
TinyMCE 5.x-1.9 The most popular WYSIWYG editor for advanced content editing.

Views 5.x-1.6 The views module creates customized views of node lists. Required by: Acidfree (enabled), Views RSS (enabled), Views Theme Wizard (enabled), Views UI (enabled)
Views RSS 5.x-1.6 RSS plugin for the views feed selector argument. Depends on: Views (enabled)
Views Theme Wizard 5.x-1.6 The views theme wizard helps create stub theming for views. Depends on: Views (enabled)
Views UI 5.x-1.6 The Views UI module allows you to create and edit views. Depends on: Views (enabled)

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Trying to import with 'Mass Import' 2 images with Admin account.
Files compressed as followed (Right click on top of files -> add to archive).

WinRAR - Rar - no special selections:
* file basic_winrar.rar is not a valid acidfree element type (safe_mode)
* failed to import 'basic_winrar.rar'

WinRAR - Zip - no special selections:
failed to import 'basic_winrar.zip' (could not extract archive)

7-zip - Tar - no special selections:
* file basic_7-zip.tar is not a valid acidfree element type (safe_mode)
* failed to import 'basic_7-zip.tar'

7-zip - Zip / compression method: deflate / Multi-threading: on / Encryption: none
failed to import '7-zip_deflate_multi.zip' (could not extract archive)

7-zip - Zip / compression method: deflate / Multi-threading: off / Encryption: none
failed to import '7-zip_deflate_no_multi.zip' (could not extract archive)

7-zip - Zip / compression method: bzip2 / Multi-threading: on / Encryption: none
failed to import '7-zip_bzip2_multi.zip' (could not extract archive)

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Then tried to disable all these moduls at once:

Tracker
Upload

Image Attach
Image Gallery
Image Import

Filemanager
IMCE

Views RSS
Views Theme Wizard
Views UI

..and tried to upload "zip_bzip2_multi.zip" and "basic_7-zip.tar".

Did not help :(

same problem here: I can't mass upload anything...
how far along is a v6 version of this? how can we help to solve this issue?

I've just installed acidfree, am hosting the site on Windows/IIS6, have all the pre-requisites installed + FileManager, and am getting similar errors when trying to upload a single image or a zip. If a single image, the image is saved and I get:

warning: shell_exec() [function.shell-exec]: Unable to execute 'file -biN "c:\windows\temp\tmp700.tmp"' in C:\www\docs\modules\acidfree\acidfree.module on line 2145.

and if a zip, I get no images saved, the above error, plus:
warning: system() [function.system]: Unable to fork [unzip -qq c:\windows\temp\tmp700.tmp -d c:\windows\temp\mas701.tmpa6eddbd1] in C:\www\docs\modules\acidfree\acidfree.module on line 1599.

I've looked through these newsgroups and on the web, but I'm not seeing a straightforward step-by-step to resolve it. The lines mentioned are:

$ret = explode(' ', trim( `file -biN $f` ));
and
system($cmd); where cmd appears to be "unzip -qq {$file->filepath} -d %aftmpdir"

I am wondering if there are additional configuration steps required to let php know how to deal with these UNIX oriented functions. Any help is appreciated.

Does the server have unzip? if not get it here http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html

Acidfree must be able to access the system() function to unzip archives.

Closing. 3 years since last activity.