Last Updated on December 2, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
I was downloading the Joomlaatwork free SEF patch for Joomla 1.5.15 stable. The Windows extract was telling me that the archive was empty. Joomlaatwork’s admin on their support forum suggested using 7zip or Winrar.
I downloaded Winrar and it extracted something called patch_1515_stable. This was not the usual folder and file structure I saw with previous versions of the patch. I looked at the file size and it was only slightly smaller than the original zip that I downloaded.
I renamed patch_1515_stable to patch_1515_stable.zip and then ran a windows extract against that. The folder structure I expected ot see was there.
What I suspect happened was that the downloadable zips were somehow created with a zip of a zip instead of a zip of the file structure.
By the way, the Joomlaatwork free SEF patch is well worth the effort if you are working with Joomla 1.5.x. They also offer a paid version that offers more options and features. It appears that the free SEF patch will be incorporated in Joomla 1.6 when that is released.