On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:15:13 -0600, Muticek (jsmith@hotmail.com) wrote:
:Guys,
:I know all about pars, QPar etc.
:What I am saying is that I managed to download all the files, albeit some of them incomplete.
:But QPar does not recognize the the files, saying they do NOT exist. I suspect the comma in the name is the culprit.
:That's why I asked for help. I will try to manually rename the files, eliminating the comma. Then, hopefully, everything will click.
:My question is why would anyone post files with forbidden characters and why would nobody point it out before me. These files have been there for almost a year.
:Regards,
:M.
Hi Muticek,
I posted the files originally, so maybe I can help.
Yes, there are some bad letters, but the comma isn't one of them.
I believe it was the late, great George Carlin who made all of this clear in his
famous routine, "The Nine ASCII Characters You Can't Say in a Filename".
The very first thing you should have done is run the .SFV file to make sure you
got everything OK. That way you would be checking the .PAR2 files as well as the
.rar files.
If QuickPar can't recognize the files, then maybe you have the wrong set of .rar
files.
Many of my posts have had commas. That post also has an apostrophe. (Not all
apostrophes are the same ASCII. Some use the single quote, of which there are a
left & right variety.)
Please keep in mind that all of my WinRAR files have built-in 'Recovery Volumes'
that you can access via WinRAR's <Tools> <Repair archive> menu. (Not many
posters offer this little extra.)
Manually renaming files never works. Something else is quite wrong over there.
Do you have all 256 ASCII characters on your system? (0-255) Is your keyboard
layout.ini file up to date? Are WinRAR & QuickPar the latest versions? (WinRAR
was updated just a few days ago on 15 December.)
In other words, what is different on your end, since if there were any illegal
characters in the filename, I couldn't have put them there in the first place.
Isis
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