On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:46:34 +0100, James Button
<jamesbutton@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <7vq2oe9b4gom6kqijq7s68snjeav5aofup@4ax.com>, im4scots86
>@nospam.yahoo.com says...
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>> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:28:10 GMT, Captain Picard
>> <Picard@1701D.starfleet> wrote:
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>> >In reply to "Beans" who wrote the following:
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>> >> Always hit or miss for me. Should I join just par* files or all.of
>> >> them. Seems when I join the par* files they always save seperately.
>> >> I'm tired of screwing them up. Thanks. I'll hang up and listen.
>> >
>> >you don't join par files they contain parity blocks
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>For .par2 files and .par sets get the quickpar utility
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>Then, if there is a problem with one or more of the files that the par
>set has been generated for, damaged partial, renamed, or missing, the
>par facility will check if there are enough blocks of the recovery
>information to generate the missing bits.
>and
>for files that have been split using the par facility (rather than zip,
>7zip, or the more usual rar sets.) the recovery includes generating a
>joined file.
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>The quick par facility will also indicate which files are not considered
>good, and if the files cannot be regenerated or corrected, allowing you
>to decide if the good bits are worth keeping without the damaged bits
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