In article <160920082149043719%rugrat@playpen.net>,
Rugrat <rugrat@playpen.net> wrote:
> In article <2008091422440316807-gripnsip@datpurpledrankcom>, rikki rockett
> <gripnsip@datpurpledrank.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2008-09-14 21:45:45 -0800, wlg <gonefishin@thelake.com> said:
> >
> > > In article <2008091419545275249-gripnsip@datpurpledrankcom>,
> > > rikki rockett <gripnsip@datpurpledrank.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> what would be the best way to go about this? I've got the password he
> > >> supplied but I can't seem to get UnRarX or the Unarchiver to cooperate.
> > >
> > > MacPAR and Split&Concat handle them, no problem.
> >
> > i definitely was able to reassemble the file with these two programs,
> > but the password that he gave doesn't seem to want to work with unrarx
>
> Forget about UnrarX - it is unreliable. MacParDeluxe also includes an
> Unrar utility built in which is solid and very reliable. If encryption
> used RAR segmentation like they do in the hollywood movies groups rather
> than split raw data segments as is more common in these groups then
> MPD would automatically stream one process into the next and would
> pause only to ask for the RAR password in the process. As it is done by
> encryption you must follow a 2 or 3 step extraction process:
>
> 1) Use MPD to par check the files.
> 2) Use Split&Concat to join the segments into a single RAR file
> (MPD will automatically start up S&C for you but for some reason
> this gives an error on my system lately - probably just my system).
> 3) Use MPD to extract the movie from the joined RAR archive.
> (Type Cmd-U then use the resulting navigation dialog to locate the
> RAR file to be extracted. Do not drag the RAR file onto MPD).
>
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