problems with unrar

k0ljat · 11-18-2003, 11:33 AM

With all *rar archives i get one error

The File Header is corrupt
No Files to Extract

But im soooo sure that all of the rar's are fine, because i just last week extracted them, ive tryed atleast 10 different versions of unrar but still i get this message what the hell is wrong

hw-tph · 11-18-2003, 11:36 AM

You're probably using the 2.x series of RAR and trying to extract 3.x series. The 3.x compression algorithms are *not* compatible with the 2.x series...so you can extract 2.x and 3.x compressed files using rar 3.20 (or whatever the latest version is) but you can't extract a 3.x compressed file using rar 2.x.

Did you grab the latest version from rarsoft.com?

Håkan

k0ljat · 11-18-2003, 11:37 AM

i tryed with 3.20 and the 3.30 beta but still the same error

chalewa4bambu · 02-07-2004, 01:56 PM

Yea, for some reason when i try to unrar a file, i get this error.....

[chalewa4bambu@andrew-lynch chalewa4bambu]$ su
Password:
[root@andrew-lynch chalewa4bambu]# unrar e Maroon.5-Songs.About.Jane.2003.192kbps.rar

UNRAR 3.20 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2003 Eugene Roshal

Cannot open Maroon.5-Songs.About.Jane.2003.192kbps.rar
No files to extract
[root@andrew-lynch chalewa4bambu]#

I am sure that the rar archive is intact as i can open it through windows with no problem

any help would be greatly appreciated

hw-tph · 02-07-2004, 05:43 PM

Well are you sure you are dealing with RAR files and not just files renamed to .rar to allow publication on free web servers or something similar? Nobody RARs up mp3's, they are already compressed so I suggest you just try to rename the file (skip the .rar filename extension) and try to play it.

Håkan

Looking_Lost · 02-07-2004, 06:13 PM

Never really used rar but the few time I've had to just went

rar e myfile.rar

chalewa4bambu · 02-07-2004, 09:29 PM

no, it is definately a rar file.....

it is an entire album that is rar-ed, that is the way that people compress them when the post the album torrents..

i tried the unrar e myfile.rar command, and nothing happened

R00ts · 07-09-2004, 08:02 PM

I could use some help too please. unrar is continually frustrating me I'm about to take a dump on it.

Code:

tyler@localhost:~/image/manga/Hajime_no_Ippo$ ls
Hajime_no_Ippo_v01-05.rar  Hajime_no_Ippo_v06-10.rar
tyler@localhost:~/image/manga/Hajime_no_Ippo$ unrar e Hajime_no_Ippo_v01-05.rar

UNRAR 2.71 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2000 Eugene Roshal


Extracting from Hajime_no_Ippo_v01-05.rar

Unknown method in Volume 5.rar
Unknown method in volume 1.rar
Unknown method in Volume 2.rar
Unknown method in Volume 3.rar
Unknown method in Volume 4.rar
No files to extract
tyler@localhost:~/image/manga/Hajime_no_Ippo$ whatis "THE FUCKING PROBLEM?"
THE FUCKING PROBLEM?: nothing appropriate.

And yes, the same thing happens with the other file. When I list the archive contents I get 5 rars inside the rar for each Volume. Can someone please provide some assistance for poor old me? I'm very frustrated about this.

th3_d0c · 07-09-2004, 09:09 PM

I dunno about you guys but, have you tried:
>> rar x *.rar

that will extract all files from the rar'ed file(s). but if you replace *.rar with say *.r01 DONT, that will only extract the file(s) in that archive. I dont know why, but unrar never wanted to work right for me. But I am also using 3.40 beta 1.

Also try
>>rar l[b] *.rar
and see what it gives you. It should list the files in the archives.

Quote:

Well are you sure you are dealing with RAR files and not just files renamed to .rar to allow publication on free web servers or something similar? Nobody RARs up mp3's, they are already compressed so I suggest you just try to rename the file (skip the .rar filename extension) and try to play it.
Håkan

Håkan, I completely agree with chalewa4bambu, all things you DL, "legally" or most likely not, are going to be rared, hell, I DLed a few pictures of Agulaira(sp?) from the Maxim mag. and they were rar'ed.

R00ts · 07-10-2004, 12:24 AM

I'm assuming you meant *unrar* and not *rar*, because I don't have rar installed on my machine. I ususally just put files into .tar.gz or something, I hate .rar archives (for obvious reasons).

Code:

tyler@localhost:~/image/manga/Hajime_no_Ippo$ unrar x *.rar

UNRAR 2.71 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2000 Eugene Roshal


Extracting from Hajime_no_Ippo_v01-05.rar

No files to extract
[b]tyler@localhost:~/image/manga/Hajime_no_Ippo$ unrar l *.rar

UNRAR 2.71 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2000 Eugene Roshal

Archive Hajime_no_Ippo_v01-05.rar
  0 files

So in other words, it didn't do a thing

. Maybe I should just go look for another fileserver who isn't retarded enough to archive his files in rar format.

th3_d0c · 07-10-2004, 03:19 PM

Yea, I downloaded http://rarlab.com/download.htm the Linux command line only version. And it had rar/unrar. Sorry.

p-static · 07-10-2004, 04:51 PM

Does unrar even need the e command line option? Using rar, rar e means to extract, so unrar e seems redundant.

R00ts · 07-10-2004, 05:21 PM

Yes unrar needs the e option. You can also use x for extraction too.

the88shrimp · 05-12-2010, 02:18 AM

its simple i was exploring the options tabs then i clicked on the security tab there was a line saying files excluded from extracting. i fount .exe on there i deleted where it said exe and it was fine after that

Three · 10-01-2010, 02:09 PM

Also a sudo can help with this.