Hi Steven, Guys,
On Tuesday 26 November 2019 23:48:41 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 09:51:51PM +0000, Baron wrote:
The output from "file" is,
"RAR archive data, v0, flags: Locked, Authenticated,"
Which doesn't help me a lot I'm afraid.
My guess is that this means that your RAR file is password protected and your unrar utility doesn't know how to deal with it, but that's a guess because I'm busy and don't have time to research it for you. But I seem to vaguely remember having this same problem in the past, which I ended up solving by running the unrar utility from the command line rather than through KDE's Extract menu.
But that was years ago and I might be confabulating the whole episode.
You could start some more research here:
Problem solved !
Apparently Windows RAR allows setting locks and passwords via a file that is used by RAR when creating an archive. Unrar 5.8 now works fine.
I didn't realise that the new version was not in the path, and I was still trying to use the old one.
The RAR file format was changed quite recently and the old versions cannot understand the 5 version format.
The new 5.8 installs in "/usr/local" which oddly has "root, staff" rights, rather than "root,root" which I expected. It seems that I'm not a member of that group.
Thanks everybody for your help, its much appreciated.