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Unzip thinks my zip file is a zip bomb

I've been struggling with this for a couple days so I'm hoping someone on SE can help me.

I've downloaded a large file from Dropbox using wget (following command)

wget -O folder.zip //www.dropbox.com/sh/.../.../dropboxfolder?dl=1

I'm sure it's a zip because 1), file dropboxfolder.zip yields dropboxfolder.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract, and 2) the download and extraction works find on my Windows machine.

When I try to unzip to the current directory using unzip dropboxfolder.zip, on Linux, I get the following output:

warning:  stripped absolute path spec from /  
mapname: conversion of failed
creating: subdir1/
creatingL subdir2/
extracting: subdir1/file1.tif
error: invalid zip file with overlapped components (possible zip bomb)
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Bharatgxwzm
I had the same issue for unzipping a large file (~6 GB). Solved it with this:

jar xf your_file.zip

I hope it helps!

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