On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 05:15:11 -0700, Galen Frost <Galenfrost@nuhuh.com>
wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 20:11:50 +0200, Anonymous
><anonymous@hoi-polloi.org> wrote:
>
>>In article <aerahb99r2v25ji68p6hche5lva6bdoena@4ax.com>
>>Galen Frost <Galenfrost@nuhuh.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:21:25 GMT, dear_reader
>>> <dear_reader@reading.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Have tried with WinRAR, Unpacker, 9Zip, WinOpener etc....
>>>
>>> Most will open the zip file and reveal a RAR inside. Then they all
>>> offer errors on that file - pointer failure for Unpacker, and 'corrupt
>>> or damaged' file on the others. I have used the fix/repair options
>>> within the programs to no avail.
>>>
>>> I have zero issue with any other posts. Other posters stuff in this
>>> same group open right up for me... out of ideas on what the solution
>>> here is.
>>
>>Can you tell us the names of the posts you've been having this
>>trouble with? That would be helpful. Just saying, "these recent
>>posts by Psychopath" is too general, please be specific and maybe
>>we can help more.
>
>
>The latest post (zip) that I attempted was "Food of Japan" multipart -
>same basic result, although when I 'repaired' in the internal pdf I
>received a partially functional file, albeit with corruption on many
>pages. Thanks for the offer of help - it is appreciated.
OK, this is your trouble:
(There are actually multiple versions of this title -- one set is
broken into multiple zip files, the other two are single PDF files.)
http://tinyurl.com/grtjz2e
Working with the zip version:
Psychpath's method is to make RAR files of the title (usually a single
PDF or epub).
He then zips up these RAR files into multiple zip files, then posts
the zip files.
So what you actually have is a set of zip files containing within them
a further set of RAR files, all ot this containing just one actual
PDF -- it's not just the one set ot zip files.
This is what to do:
Download all the zip files.
Put them into a temporary folder (for convenience)
Highlight ALL of the zip files.
Using WiinRAR (or 7Zip, etc) , do "extract ALL here". Accept any
overwriting, these will all be the same nfo text file.
This will extract the set of RAR files.
UnRAR these the same folder.
This will extract the single PDF file. All the rest of the
intermediate files can then be discarded.
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