Originally posted by: Kurgan
I don't know what to do with all these numbered files otherwise. It's not simply a matter of unraring them, because they're not rar files (rar, r00, r01, etc) but just numbered (001, 002, 003, etc). Somehow I'm supposed to combine them...
The files were split by QuickPar.
Ideally, the files would be fine and QuickPar's "Repair" button would turn into a "Rejoin" button.
Which file shows corrupt? You only need (any) one of the par files, and the small rar file.
Originally posted by: Moth3r
Normally you use PAR files to fix broken/corrupt RAR files. Putting PAR files inside the RAR archive - if that is indeed the case - is just silly.
I don't know what to do with all these numbered files otherwise. It's not simply a matter of unraring them, because they're not rar files (rar, r00, r01, etc) but just numbered (001, 002, 003, etc). Somehow I'm supposed to combine them...
The files were split by QuickPar.
Ideally, the files would be fine and QuickPar's "Repair" button would turn into a "Rejoin" button.
Well the webmaster insists that all the files are fine and repeated back to me the "instructions" on the page. I guess all try downloading all 449 mb worth of rar files again. *sigh*
Test the rars, to see which one is bad.
That check-mark, in Winrar, tests them. In most rar sets, the test will stop at the corrupt rar (some rar sets behave differently, I haven't figured out why, but it should work with these).
The trouble is that one of the files within the rars is corrupt. The same file is present in all five of the rars that have the par files... and it's corrupt in every single one of them. Winrar reports an invalid CRC. So it can't extract, meaning quickpar will always says 2227 blocks are "missing" and can't build the iso file. It's hopeless...
Test the rars, to see which one is bad.
That check-mark, in Winrar, tests them. In most rar sets, the test will stop at the corrupt rar (some rar sets behave differently, I haven't figured out why, but it should work with these).
The trouble is that one of the files within the rars is corrupt. The same file is present in all five of the rars that have the par files... and it's corrupt in every single one of them. Winrar reports an invalid CRC. So it can't extract, meaning quickpar will always says 2227 blocks are "missing" and can't build the iso file. It's hopeless...
Which file shows corrupt? You only need (any) one of the par files, and the small rar file.
Originally posted by: Moth3r
Normally you use PAR files to fix broken/corrupt RAR files. Putting PAR files inside the RAR archive - if that is indeed the case - is just silly.
It's silly for Usenet, and for downloaders with a Rapidshare account.
The idea was to reduce the number of 1-hour waits between files, for free-download users, by packing the pars into 100-meg rars.
So it makes sense for that.
On the other hand, a free-downloader would probably prefer to only download par files if he runs into trouble. The tiny one for checking, and as many large ones as he needs to repair with.