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Looneybomber
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I have this video I downloaded. It's broke up into 41 .rar files. I cannot unpack any of the files, they all say "The archive is either in unknown formate or damaged".

Do I need to change the extension or did I not get everything downloaded and that's why they're "damaged"

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krazydriver
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only downloaded a couple of torrents FOREVER ago ~2-3 years.I'm going to guess your using WinRAR to unpack the rars.If it's still doing it then... yeah it didn't download completely.

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Fenvy
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did it say 100% finished?

also are you using winrar to unpack?

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Looneybomber
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Yup it was 100% done and I am using winrar.

On a side note, in the middle of downloading a different video, I unpacked it, tried to play it and it worked, except the video only played a few seconds before stopping. I'm assuming my other file is just damaged/corrupt and I'll need to delete it. Oh well, no biggie it was less than 2GB so it wasn't a true DVD rip.

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redtop91
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Whenever I've run across this problem it is either A) the .rar files need to be renamed (I.E. their file extensions are 001, 002, 003 files etc.) or there is B) a specific file that needs to be unpacked first in order for the rest to fall in line.

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Uberck
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post a pic here of the files in explorer

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Looneybomber
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Uberck wrote:post a pic here of the files in explorer
I already deleted it.


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