| Re: What to do with SOME corrupted attachments |
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| Herb (Herb@the.herb.garden) |
2009/03/30 19:50 |
hopper wrote:
> 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.
Working on the 869 post ...
'LittleMissMe' said that Winrar gave up with 'no recovery record
found'. Don't yet know what version of Winrar she's using,
But with 3.71 it sailed through and fixed it.
> By default Winrar is not installed with that option as a positive value.
Is there a way to get the properties of a .rar archive that shows
things like whether or not it has a recovery record, built 'solid' and
other attributes?
> 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.
Pretty tricky for most! In this case, when winrar recovers it, it
states that the archive header is corrupt.
Interestingly, if I tell it to treat the archive as 'solid' it creates
one folder. If I say not to, it creates the contents as a folder
within a folder. The source of BlueRopes problem may be that his/her
version of Winrar doesn't handle nested folders well.
> 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.
Agree.
> 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.
I agree. There are enough Outlook Express and Mozilla based
newsreaders being used that yEnc posting generally hurts more than it
helps. OTOH, many European users pay by the byte so it saves them a
few bits here and there.
> But what do I know :)
Quite a bit, it would seem!
--- Herb
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