26 Nov
2019
26 Nov
'19
11:15 p.m.
On Tuesday 26 November 2019 03:51:51 pm Baron wrote:
Hi Guys,
On Tuesday 26 November 2019 16:42:05 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
At this point I'd just punt as they say. Ask your friend to extract the
file(s) into a folder and re-compress them using some other method than RAR.
It is concievable if this RAR file was emailed to you that you do not have an
exact copy of it.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 02:46:58PM +0000, Baron
wrote:
Thanks Steven, your help is appreciated.
The output from "file" is,
"RAR archive data, v0, flags: Locked, Authenticated," I did download the latest RAR and UNRAR Version
5.8 beta4 and
tried with that. The best that I get is that it is not a RAR
file and there are no extractable files.
My guess is that the file isn't a RAR file at all, but some doofus
has named it ".rar" because all compressed archives are RAR files,
right?
It might work on your friend's computer if his decompression
utility is smart enough to use the correct decompressor based on
the file contents, not the extension.
Try deleting the ".rar" extension and then run the "file"
command-line utility on it and see what it says. It should inspect
the file contents and make an educated guess of the actual file
type, without being confused by the (possibly inaccurate)
extension.