Showing posts with label Utilities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Utilities. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

How To Join Files Downloaded From Internet

    Split files is the simplest way to upload and share big files online. But there are many extensions for this type of files. This post will show you which software can join each type of these kind of files.


    The basic rule to join files is you must download all splitted files and put all in one folder. After done, you can start join with one of these software:


     1/ WinRAR (join and extract files *.part01, *.part02...; *.r01, *.r02...; *.zip, *.z01, *.z02 etc.)[Paid - Newest version is 3.90 - Homepage]: this is the most popular way to compress and split file. Just right click at any file, and choose Extract here or Extract to. You maybe asked for password to extract WinRAR files.
    However, splitting and joining files with WinRAR often encounters problem such as CRC, Corrupted. If you face this problem, please read 4 ways to repair WinRAR error files.

Join and Extract Files With WinRAR
Join and Extract Files With WinRAR

    2/ HJSplit (split and join *.001, *.002,...)[FREE - Newest version: 2.4 - Homepage]: this small tool work quite fast and stable and less errors. To join, you choose Join > Input File > and choose file *.001. If you don't select output,  joined file will be put in source folder. Then click Start to begin. This tool does not support password.

HJSplit Main Screen
HJSplit Main Screen

    3/ File Splitter and Joiner (join files *.001, *.002... and *.__a, *.__b...)[FREE - Newest version: 3.3 - Homepage]. To join, right click at file .001 or .__a, then choose Join. At next windows, you can select folder to store joined file, can check at Delete split parts after joining. Then click Join to start join file. You also need to input password is required.

File Splitter and Joiner Interface
File Splitter and Joiner Interface

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

4 Ways To Repair WinRAR Error Files

    Everyday, I got a thousand comments of visitor about CRC Error of file *.rar. But getting this error not mean that you can't extract and use file anymore. There are many ways and software help you repair this error and use these files again.
    WinRAR Error (mostly CRC Error) often happen when you extract a very large file or extract multi files (named part01.rar, part02.rar...). If you get this error when extract multi files, first you need to know exactly which file is error. When extracting, WinRAR Diagnostic Message will show all files that getting error and what error is.You must remember name of error files to fix it.

WinRAR Diagnostic Message
WinRAR Diagnostic Message Display Error

Then I will show you 4 ways to do this.

     1/ Use WinRAR Repair: open error file with WinRAR. Then go to menu Tools > Repair Archive (hotkey Alt + R). You can also browse a folder with WinRAR and choose error file, then click Repair button in toolbar.
- In next dialog, choose folder to put repaired file and then click OK to start repair.
- File after repaired will be named fixed..
 NOTE: after repair, you need to delete error file, rename repaired file to original name and try to extract again.

Repair Error RAR Files With WinRAR
Repair Error RAR Files With WinRAR

      2/ Use RAR Repair Tool: this simple software will help you repair error rar completely. Almost corrupt files can be repaired with this software. Different with WinRAR, RAR Repair Tool do not repair anyfile. RAR Repair Tool can repair single file or check and repair all parts from a folder.
    - It easy to use, just go to File > Open > choose error file and click Repair button, then choose folder to save repaired file, OK and done.
WinRAR Repair Tool
RAR Repair Tool
    3/ Use RAR Recovery Toolbox: Like RAR Repair Tool, RAR Recovery Toolbox can recover all files in rar file or in all part. After recover, you can use these files without extracting.
   - At first step, you need to choose source file name. You can also choose a part of WinRAR (*.part01.rar...). Then click Next.
   - At Select files to recover, you select all files in error rar file and click Next, select folder to save recovered data and click Next to start fixed and recover. RAR Recovery Toolbox will repair and extract all files to this folder.

RAR Recovery Toolbox
RAR Recovery Toolbox
      4/ If these softwares can help you, the last choice is redownload corrupt file. Maybe files caused error while downloading, redownload can help.