This is the first time I've actually uploaded a compressed file to this server. I did so using Control Panel. Each time, I highlighted the file and tried to extract the contents. The problem is only 9 or so of the 306 files extracts.

The compressed file contains all my images from the stories folder. I've tried the following formats:

stories.zip (wouldn't work at all)

stories.tar (extracted 2 folders and 2 files. On the extract listing it also repeated one file for the balance of the listing.

stories.tgz (extracted 2 folders and about 7 files. The extract listing didn't have the same repeat process as above, but it also didn't show all the files)

I've taken these same files and uploaded to another server with a similar configuration and I have no problem extracting the .tar and .tgz file. All the files extract. I didn't try the .zip as I was testing to see if the file compressed correctly.

Any ideas? I would prefer not to FTP 306 files individually.

Thanks in advance.

Are you using windows or unix/linux?

Regular tar.gz type files contain special 'linked' files in some cases that Windows can't handle.

you may try stories.rar or try use ftp unpload the file and unzip in ftp