How can I fix / stop corrupt Win RAR files?

SPL Tech · 10-18-2006, 02:35 AM

I download a lot of files from Rapid Share. They are all Win RAR archives (.rar files) and they are all movies. They decompress into the .avi file format. But recently 90% of all the RAR files I have downloaded are corrupt. Why? And more importantly how can I fix this.

j3wcl@w · 10-18-2006, 07:48 AM

i dont think there is anything you can do its most probably other people's uploads

Apokalipse · 10-18-2006, 08:00 AM

that's easy. illegally produced copies tend to be bad quality.

you could go and buy the actual DVD, and get a much higher quality copy, and you don't have to decompress anything.

TheMajor · 10-18-2006, 09:26 AM

Disable all programs running in the background (antivirus, etc). I had tons of "corrupt archive" errors on a stressed computer, if I disabled everything it would run fine. Both compressing and decompressing. Seems to be a bug in WinRAR.

baronvongogo · 10-18-2006, 10:08 AM

Iv changed from winrar to 7zip it seems to do everything and works flawlessly for me.

SPL Tech · 10-18-2006, 09:00 PM

Where can I get 7zip? Is it an .rar file decompressor?

baronvongogo · 10-19-2006, 04:50 AM

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

it will work with winrar, winace, zip etc seems to do most compressed file formats.

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