Help - Downloaded Winrar files but wont open.

Loobz

Hi all.

I downloaded a file, using a download manager, that is split up into 43 winrar files - all are needed to open the file. However the last 15 or so were not associated with a program (i.e. Winrar). Also, So, right click-properties shows the filesize is correct and I manually chose Winrar as the default Program to open the file.

When I try extract the file - 'You need to start extraction from a previous volume'.

They are all in the same folder - the majority of the files show as Winrar files but the rest show as R37, R38, R39 file (R37 etc is what they were saving as)

Heres a screenshot of the files. How can I associate the last few files with winrar so the item will open? Do I need to download them again?
Thanks for any input.

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mukki

thats file structure is perfectly normal

its the one big rar file that has been split up into smaller parts

winrar will cop on to this, so all you have to do is open one of the recognised files winrar will show the contents of all the files and you can extract them

Loobz

mukki wrote:

thats file structure is perfectly normal

its the one rar file split up into smaller parts

winrar will cop on to this, so you just have to open one of the recognised files and extract its contents

Thanks for quick reply, but it wont extract. The files I circled seem to be causing the issue.

seamus

In the explorer window, go to Tools -> Folder Options. Click on the "View" tab, and uncheck the box marked "Hide File extensions for known file types". Now you will see the .XXX after each file.

You will then see these files called rld-fahr.r01, rld-fahr.r02, ..r03, etc. Afair, if you double-click on the .r01 file, it will begin opening the archive correctly.

Basq

Yeah, WinRAR should get that but a bit odd that the files below type RAR start at R30.

There should typically be one RAR file (.rar) and then the next file with extension .r00, then the next has .r01 and so forth!

But these structures vary. Simply open one!

mukki

Loobz wrote:

Thanks for quick reply, but it wont extract. The files I circled seem to be causing the issue.

when a rar file is split up winrar will name the first part r01 second r02 ect

but in windows winrar is only associated with r01- r29, (maybe r30 was used by someother app once), but that is just from the windows side,

once you click on one of the recognised files, windows will know to run winrar, and once winrar is running it will open all files (r01-r99)

if you are having problems opening or extracting from winrar, does it give an error?

Loobz

basquille wrote:

Yeah, WinRAR should get that but a bit odd that the files below type RAR start at R30.
There should typically be one RAR file (.rar) and then the next file with extension .r00, then the next has .r01 and so forth!
But these structures vary. Simply open one!

mukki wrote:

when a rar file is split up winrar will name the first part r01 second r02 ect
but in windows winrar is only associated with r01- r29, (maybe r30 was used by someother app once), but that is just from the windows side,
once you click on one of the recognised files, windows will know to run winrar, and once winrar is running it will open all files (r01-r99)

if you are having problems opening or extracting from winrar, does it give an error?

Basq

Have you no file with a .RAR extension in among all the RXX extensions (where RXX is .01, .02 etc.)?

Loobz

basquille wrote:

Have you no file with a .RAR extension in among all the RXX extensions (where RXX is .01, .02 etc.)?

Nope, none are *.rar.

Capt'n Midnight

IIRC the torrent reserves space for the files and then fills in the space, from the image looks like the last files just haven't finished downloading yet

rar like multipart zip figures out the parts once the index is ok - for zip files it's at the end of the last file - lots of fun with zipfix and stuff that never seemed to work

You need the .rar file, if you have no luck finding it you might pick the disc up cheap in a sale.

h57xiucj2z946q

since you downloaded a game by scene group (RELOADED's release of Fahrenheit, whats with the red strips, you forgot to mask out 1 more place :P ), you can get missing rar's from irc chans like irc.rizon.net #incomplete

and reloaded always split rar's into 50mb's or so. (its pc-game iso scene rules anyway for thoes of you who know
you will definatetly need .rar, .r01, r02...etc, check the .nfo to see how many "disks" (rars) there are.