# ASEC Extract Decompression Issue

**URL:** <https://forum.ipums.org/t/asec-extract-decompression-issue/6348>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 11, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/asec-extract-decompression-issue/6348 "2025-02-11T17:22:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Hannah\_Jacobs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@Hannah\_Jacobs](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Hannah_Jacobs)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/asec-extract-decompression-issue/6348/1 "2025-02-11T17:22:33Z")

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I’ve read through other people’s issues with decompression / unzipping, but I think mine may be novel! I have a Windows computer and it’s telling me my .dat.gz (for Stata) file can’t be extracted because “The file name you specified is not valid or too long. Specify a different file name.” Any ideas?

Thanks so much!

Best,

Hannah

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**Author:** ![Hannah\_Jacobs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@Hannah\_Jacobs](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Hannah_Jacobs)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/asec-extract-decompression-issue/6348/2 "2025-02-11T21:39:06Z")

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Hi all,

It seems that using 7Zip has solved my problems. Thanks for the others who have suggested this!

Hannah