DB wrote:
The reason I went with tar tvh was (to try) to check the contents of the file after "open with ark" in Dollphin spat out the errors. I guess that actually trying to extract the files when the table of contents fails would not be any more successful?
Run
md5sum F11_Home_Dave_20091217.tar.gz
on both machines. If you get two different results, something bad is happening.