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From: Herb <Herb@the.herb.garden>
>If the attachment is a Rar archive file it can usually be repaired.
>
>1) Save the attachment - and remember where you saved it :)
>2) Open WinRar
> Do NOT double click on the file - that will fail.
> Just go directly to a WinRar icon and open the program.
>3) Navigate to the folder where you saved the attachment.
>4) RIGHT-click on the attachment and select 'repair archive'
> (alternatively, just select it and press Alt-R)
>
>Answer yes or ok or continue to all the messages, no matter how
>ominous they sound.
>
>You will now have a file with the word "Rebuilt." ahead of the rar
>file name. You can now open this or extract or save or whatever you
>would have done originally.
>
>Some of the included contents might be lost, or they might all be
>there. In the case of BlueRope's posts, everything is there. He or she
>appears to be using NewsBin Pro 5.51, which is a good news READing
>program, but a less than optimum news POSTing program.
>
> - Herb
Herb, your description only works where the "put recovery record"
option is ticked/set by the poster.
By default Winrar is not installed with that option as a positive value.
A method that works for *every* corrupted archive, where it is the
crc value that is creating the error dialog, is to save the file as a
unix text file then manually comb through the file to remove the
faulty code, or join with good code as the case may be.
Importing the repaired file to Agent will list the archive for
decoding by Agent.
Given some are not able to set the recovery option in the first place
(so easy to do) then the above method is likely impractical for the
downloaders here.
[ps] I have seen "thank you" posted for files which are incomplete
[ps]or not recoverable at all. Those thank you posts help nobody.
For the yEnc posts pointed to there exists an easy method to
recover the files.
Again, save the archive as a unix text file and feed it to this yEnc tool.
http://www.yenc32.com/
The tool will decode the archive from raw text and deliver the
files as they were packed.
Observation shows many posters are using yEnc encoded posting
so the above method may deliver more product than relying on
Winrar rebuilds.
Why it is yEnc is so popular in uploads of designs is a mystery.
The files are too small to warrant using that encoding.
But what do I know :)
hth
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