tar: Unrecognized archive format error when trying to unpack flower_photos.tgz, TF tutorials on OSX

I'm trying to unpack the flower_photos.tgz after curling it using

curl -O
tar xzf flower_photos.tgz

This is from the image retraining tutorial for TensorFlow

Results from curling

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 127 100 127 0 0 255 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 255

Then when I try to unpack

tar xzf flower_photos.tgz
tar: Unrecognized archive format
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

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4 Answers

try using the -L flag, i.e.

curl -OL 

source:

1

I solved this problem by downloading the file from safari and then copy the file to your directory. There is something wrong with the file download by command curl. Maybe you can try my method.

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Apparently the new instructions on TensorFlow website run without issues

I just tried the instructions posted on How to Retrain Inception's Final Layer for New Categories

curl -O
tar xzf flower_photos.tgz

It worked without any problems

I had the same problem

tar: Error opening archive: Unrecognized archive format

In my case the actual file didn't exist anymore (checked by putting the link in the browser), so my tar file was actually an error page (probably 404 page).

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