Help with RAR files

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  1. ghostluv

    ghostluv Member

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    can somebody, anybody tell how to read a rar.file?
    Any help is appreciated

    GHOST...Luv
     
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    google winrar its a program that allows you to unrar (or unzip) the content in the rar file
     
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    Yes, use WinRAR. When you have installed WinRAR, then you right click [bold]one[/bold] of the .rar files and click extract here. This will then automatically extract the rest of the rar files along with the one you selected.
     
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    exactly
     
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    I thank you for your response really i do appreciated it.

    Now once i have unzip the rar file with the winrar, do i need a special player to play the movie or does the winrar will do everything from there?

    does the winrar comes for free?
     
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    winrar is pretty much free you can use it forever without having to pay thats just say. it depends what type of movie it is like a .avi or what but i would suggest video lan play (vlc player)
     
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    should i go and look for a vlc player?

    I'm sorry but this file name is new to me so i'm a little bit slow when it comes to new gigg.

    thanks again for any help provided..
     
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    yeah get vlc and then try to play the file. does it work?
     
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    Once you extract the rar files what format of video do you get? You aren't trying to play the rar files are you?
     
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    I was actually, now that i have download the winrar, i did extract the file and somehow it's telling me that i'm missing a part to the file.

    I'm sorry about this.
     
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    Oh right. Well nvm everyone has to learn, no harm done. As for part of the file being missing, I can only assume that this is a corrupt (broken) rar file.


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    he's not downloading games he was downloading a movie right?
     
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    Oh yes! I'm sorry i was in two minds, answering two threads at once! lol

    I have edited my post accordingly, but what I said about it being corrupt still stands, if it is a downloaded dvd. Which I presume it is as it is rar files.
     
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    If there were PAR or PAR2 files that came with the movie, download Quickpar. If you have enough PARs you can rebuild the damaged section.

    Otherwise, extract the RAR file again but in the extraction screen, tick the box labelled "Keep broken files". That'll allow you to recover part of the file.
     
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    I will try and let you all know how i make out.

    thank you all
     

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