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Rar and ISO issue

Posted: 2008-07-21 01:00pm
by Bounty
I've been sent a disc image that's been split into 12 rar archives. I can extract the archives with Archive Manager and unrar, but the ISO is messed up - all the files appear to be there, but their file names are just underscores.

Is the original archive just borked, or am I doing something wrong?

Posted: 2008-07-21 01:07pm
by General Zod
Was this file split up with anything other than Winrar? I've found that some compressed archives require that you use a specific program or you'll wind up with errors in the file when they're extracted. If Winrar itself produces errors the file might just be borked.

Posted: 2008-07-21 01:09pm
by Bounty
That might be it. I'll try Winrar proper.

ETA: I'm an idiot. Winrar gave me blank files too, but mounting the disc image shows it's fine, so the problem is with Archive Manager's preview function. Non-problem solved.

Posted: 2008-07-21 06:13pm
by Stark
It's not a real problem, but I'm curious; have you tried opening it with 7zip? I've actually found 7zip is a bit more tolerant of strangeness in archives than poor old winrar.