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Hi, I've run into this problem overtime and at times get things to work and other times don't- just like now. Ok, in using 7zip to 'un-rar' a .rar file- file.rar. Inside file.rar is 10 parts- file.part01.rar, file.part02.rar, through file.part10.rar.
I have 7zip associated, so when I 2x click on file.rar it opens 7zip and shows me the contents of the file and the 'parts' files. Now, here's the *problem*. What now? As I select the first .part01.rar file or- highlight/select all 10 and say 'extract', at best, the only thing then that happens is part one extracts and then conflicts with info saying- "this is the same name as the ENTIRE file, would you like to overwrite?"
Grrrrrrrr..... .rar's have driven me nuts over this since .rar first came around just like now- I'm shut down, cannot extract and simultaneously join the rar parts when other times I have, but I've NEVER been clear on this 'basic' operation to know what the hell I did one time to the next.
What does this idiot here need to know?
Really appreciate it.
More info: in any other 'like' case, there's only 'two' scenarios: say you get one .rar file with all the .rar parts inside (like this is now), -or- you came from a newsgroup and you have all the individual parts that weren't in one packaged .rar file. The only thing I can think of I don't see right now is a file.part00.rar. When this 00 has been around and when it's not- only from memory. Is this the missing piece? Don't have the '00' in this .rar file. Was 'it' when the 00 was around and I extracted starting from the .part00.rar that 7zip unzipped that, went to the next, the next, the next, and in the end unzipped all the .rar's into the final single one file that was made up of all the parts?
Appreciate ANY and EVERY reply. -thnx.
7z l file.part00.rar > a.txt
I also have a really stupid .rar extract question...
"Enter password:"
:-))
>What does this idiot here need to know?
Get it again and try to open it with winrar first!
best regards
Janko
Nah, that's just it- never once from day one was I going to pay for winrar 'just' to be part of the %3 compression revolution. (right, I've been around a long time I know how to get keys). Anyway, besides ng posts and it's purposes, rar is pointless and only *newbies* took on the .rar revolution with a 'pay-only' app to decompress the damn things- until 7zip for me was the first I saw open source. (sorry folks, just hate it.) Anyway...
> 7z l file.part00.rar > a.txt
-Thnx for the post, I don't know what this means.
> >What does this idiot here need to know? Get it again and try to open it with winrar first!
-Yeah janko, thnx for the 'advice' minus the *real* answer- the explanation. Big difference.
Ok, something *new* has come in, right this minute I've got exactly things both ways- I've got file.part01-10.rar, and now file.r00-r15. I can do nothing with file.part01.rar files but a .rar with .rxx 7zip extracts. This was 'why' I posted- thnx for the replies, hopefully someone who knows will post next.
Hello everyone,
"> 7z l file.part00.rar > a.txt
-Thnx for the post, I don't know what this means."
This means, that you should open a commandline in the directory where file.part.rar is stored, type in the given text and publish the created file a.txt here in this forum. 7z.exe has to be in your path or in the directory where the file is in.
Igor wants to know if 7-zip can read that file.
Best regards!
Ok, I follow now, and- that's not a '|' pipe, that's a lowercase 'L'. Yes, 7zip can read the file.part01.rar.
Anyway-
7-Zip 4.42 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov 2006-05-14
Listing archive: file.part01.rar
Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------
2006-09-15 09:44:18 ....A 384651032 14999878 file.part01.rar
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------
384651032 14999878 1 files
call also
dir > dir.txt
7z l -slt file.part01.rar > 7z.txt
rar lt file.part01.rar > r.txt
if r.txt is big, place only first lines of that file.
To help clarify: 'two sets of files', all inclusive for each set. First- a split .rar, next- what I always thought was a .rar archive too.
file.part01.rar
file.part02.rar
file.part03.rar
file.part04.rar
file.part05.rar
*In this file set above, this is all there is to work with and 7zip won't process all the files in a row to the resultant file if you start at 01, it will want to only decomress that one. (or I've got 7zip options set wrong or something.)
Next file set:
filename.rar
filename.r00
filename.r01
filename.r02
filename.r03
filename.r04
filename.r05
In this second file set, if I 2x click on the filename.rar file, 7zip processes each file one by one and spits out the end single resultant file.
It's this second set I've been 'successful' with but that first fileset- No idea what to do. 'THIS' was my 'question.'
-thnx
Try renaming fùthe files like this:
file.part01.rar => file.rar
file.part02.rar => file.r00
file.part03.rar => file.r01
file.part04.rar => file.r02
file.part05.rar => file.r03
and then extract; I suspect 7zip uses only this convention for rar volume names.
Good luck
Ddot
Ddot, thnx for the reply. Good idea to try, made the changes, didn't work. (maybe it could, will, might, but not apparently w/what I'm working with.) One thing I 'gained' here was getting the differences I've worked with down to the two filesets of which I had to do that yet.
Think what I'll do now and having the idea (first) that these files 'created' I'm trying to open are not *wrong* is get winrar (again), sit in the sharware end of things and finish out these .rar's once and for all. I was going to have to post somewhere to begin with anyway to get started, in any choices posted here since I'm using 7zip.
7zip- Nice util by the way 7zip people!, already had passed it onto others (over the .rar ability) in the past this way, appreciate your project/work. Not very frequently I get .rar's, I appreciate everyone whom replied to this thread. Thanks!
sc
(if you've never spanned floppies via the command line with ARJ, (back when it was the only choice- you're a *newbie*. lol.... cya. (Long live OS2! LOL...)
Igor- thanks for your reply, I posted my last to go get winrar and hadn't come back to the thread. I was able to get both filesets processed with winrar, I no longer have the filesets to run the commands. I wish I did, I appreciate your help, and, I can tell you this-
For some reason with the .rar with the .r00 to launch 7zip that then processed the files, 'this' I believe is what worked before. The other fileset- part01.rar, part02.rar, etc, was/were times 7zip didn't know what to do.
Since 'new' to this in trying to figure out what my original issue 'was' and in the best I can/could explain things- think I've got things *right* here for 7zip admin's/developers, etc. I *was* looking for 7zip limitations concerning .rar and trying to get the understandings of it 'if' there were limits.
I can post again whenever I get another file set that 7zip isn't able to handle. -Thanks for the reply.
sc
Maybe this is a stupid question but I still have problem any time trying to extract a rar file: it asks for a password! While I think this is a freeware, I don't need a password, so just type any and got error, the file can never be extracted or copied to. Any idea?
Thanks,