WinRAR problem...

Hey all,

I couldn't find a similar problem already in the forums, so my apologies if I'm re-hashing this.

I'm encountering a problem I've never had before. I've got myself a complete set of .rar files, beginning with xxxpart001.rar

They've been parred and are totally repaired. When I go to xxxpart001.rar to extract it with WinRAR, however, instead of sewing together the ninety-ish RAR files, it just wants to unpack that one RAR into its constituent components.

It's doing this with two different sets of complete and repaired RARs. What am I missing?

Thanks

 

hi

why did you repair them? this in itself says currupted download.

 

Sorry, what I meant was that the DL came with a full set of PAR2 files, so I ran them over the RARs to fill in the missing blocks.

 

hi

i have heard talk on par files but sorry dont know much about them? are they the same type thing like rars then?

and dont par unpack as pars then? you need to change pars ro rars to un compress?

i only get rars....

 

As it turns out, I'm an idiot.

WinRAR was, in fact, using the entire RAR archive in its extraction. The original files being decompressed, however, weren’t disc image files, but component DVD files that needed to be burned with Recode. Whoops.

Rotary, PARs are essentially patches for RAR files that are missing some of their data blocks. If your RARs have holes you can run a PAR over them to patch them up, provided you have more PAR blocks than holes.

Check out www.quickpar.org.uk