opening tar file displays "This does not look like a tar archive"

Question

I have downloaded some data from the internet and the files come with this format

file.pth.tar

when I am trying to open it through cygwin terminal it says:

tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I tried to open it in windows but it says Invalid archive open/read error

I tried to find the file type using: file full_graph.pth.tar

and it displays:

full_graph.pth.tar: data

You could try `od -c full_graph.pth.tar | head` to see if anything recognizable appears. — Doug Henderson, Jul 15 '21 at 22:34
@DougHenderson yes it does display some values "0000000 200 002 212 \n l 374 234 F 371 j 250 P 031 . 200" — Imaq_fa, Jul 16 '21 at 07:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '23 at 21:59

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I add a similar problem. From the filename, this is a model weight file.

You do not have to extract the file to use it.

For Pytorch, You can simply use it with the following line.

weights_path = 'file full_graph.pth.tar'
state_dict = torch.load(weights_path)

answered Jun 02 '23 at 21:59

Timilehin A.

This should be after you have confirmed that the downloaded file is valid – Timilehin A. Jun 02 '23 at 22:00

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