RARs and PARs

Krug · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:08 pm **Post subject:** RARs and PARs

Take a look at this picture: am I wasting my time? Can you not recover complete RARs? I never had the problem of a missing RAR before, just partially incomplete ones...

***edit***
before I got told off, sorry for uploading a waste of space pic, and sorry for posting in the wrong section... :wacky:

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:15 pm **Post subject:**

hhhmmmm!

I had the exact same problem with Christinas House a fortnight ago off a.b.m.h

I was missing 1 rar and I had all the par's but it wouldn't recover

Not 100% sure how Par's recover missing rar's think it is to do with how many and which rar's you already have?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:17 pm **Post subject:**

I think u'd have better luck asking for a repost

Krug · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:33 pm **Post subject:**

OK thanks guys, well I'll leave it running see what happens and then ask for a repost if it doesn't work

Jynks · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:43 pm **Post subject:**

if you have all the par files to the rars you can completly recover them if there are errors .. ASSUMING that the par files are not corrupt as well.

I PAR up all my rars and burn to a seperate disk. Never had a problem with em.

satan · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2004 7:35 am **Post subject:**

I found deleting the main rar works, AS LONG AS YOU HAVE NON-CORRUPTED PARS!!!!!!!!!!

Krug · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2004 6:35 pm **Post subject:**

I left it and it recovered the missing RARs!!

Must be because I HAD NON-CORRUPTED PARS!!!!!!!!!!!

:lol:

Thanks you lot

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2004 7:23 pm **Post subject:**

ohgodnotanotherone · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2004 9:45 pm **Post subject:**

What the fuck is a par ? :mrgreen:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2004 9:58 pm **Post subject:**

Its a special time in a boys life when...
/me throws a breeze block at ohogo's head

ps. Par stands for parity if i'm not mistaken, which as we all know is a pirate party :mrgreen:

pss. parity is a data integrity check/recovery

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:58 pm **Post subject:**

Isn't a Par married to a Ma (sorry)

10101010 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:27 am **Post subject:**

High Ya,

Yes, for sure you can recover full rars. (as long as you have enough pars)
Try to get as much as possible first - makes recovery faster.
In newreaders proberly use right click & download as incompletes, or something similar

info 4 newbies:
Parity Volumes may be used to verify that a set of files have
not been corrupted, or to reconstruct damaged files.

Damaged files can be repaired.
To get the most benefit from the use of PAR2, it is important
that everyone ensure that they download incomplete files.

A single byte error in a 10MB file might only require the use
of recovery data from a PAR file that is only 100KB in size.

PAR2 Utilities:
Windows http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
Unix/Linux http://parchive.sourceforge.net/
Mac OSX http://www.xs4all.nl/~gp/MacPAR_deLuxe/

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