Post by mmbossman

Posted: 9/14/2007 4:50 PM

Post subject: My Jet Grind Radio download came in 25 .part files...

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Swedishmartin

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...how do you fuse them? I downloaded it with Bittorrent. The folders are all .rar folders with a .cdi file in each of them. The .cdi files are named the same thing. Whenever I try to extract a .cdi I get an error during the extraction so that the file is corrupted. Could any of you please help?

Posted: 9/14/2007 4:57 PM

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YautjaElder

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Try right-clicking on one of them and then choose "Extract to...", then just extract to an empty folder. It should fuse the files automatically. I often deal with multi part downloads and that's what I do. Hope it helps.

Posted: 9/14/2007 5:04 PM

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It's a usual multi-part RAR archive, extract it and it will fuse everything together. This function gained popularity in times when BitTorrent wasn't yet popular, and most hosters including one-click host services only allowed files of very limited size, like 10 or 20 MB. Since then, the limitations has been dropped considerably, and everyone who's using archive splitting for BitTorrent releases is pretty much a retard.

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Posted: 9/14/2007 5:06 PM

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Just put all the files in the same folder, then extract the first one.

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Posted: 9/14/2007 10:39 PM

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Swedishmartin

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pirate_sephiroth wrote:

Just put all the files in the same folder, then extract the first one.

moozooh wrote:

It's a usual multi-part RAR archive, extract it and it will fuse everything together.

YautjaElder wrote:

Try right-clicking on one of them and then choose "Extract to...", then just extract to an empty folder. It should fuse the files automatically.

! C:\Downloads\DC - Jet Grind Radio(self)(CDI)www.*****.org\DC - Jet Gind Radio(self)(CDI).part04.rar: Packed data CRC failed in DC - Jet Gind Radio(self)(CDI).cdi. The volume is corrupt ! C:\Downloads\DC - Jet Grind Radio(self)(CDI)www.*****.org\DC - Jet Gind Radio(self)(CDI).part25.rar: CRC failed in DC - Jet Gind Radio(self)(CDI).cdi. The file is corrupt Thanks for your help, but unfortunately, it seems that the archive was corrupt before the splitting. :/

Posted: 9/14/2007 11:10 PM

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mmbossman

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Check to make sure all of the download files are the same size (except the last one), you may have an error in downloading one of the parts fully.

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Posted: 9/15/2007 12:11 AM

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Warp

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I have never understood the need for some people to split their archives into a myriad of small files. It wasn't useful 15 years ago, and it's much less useful today (when >100MB files are extremely common). It just doesn't make any sense.

Posted: 9/15/2007 12:13 AM

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moozooh

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Warp wrote:

I have never understood the need for some people to split their archives into a myriad of small files. It wasn't useful 15 years ago, and it's much less useful today (when >100MB files are extremely common). It just doesn't make any sense.

moozooh wrote:

This function gained popularity in times when BitTorrent wasn't yet popular, and most hosters including one-click host services only allowed files of very limited size, like 10 or 20 MB.

How else do you think they would share files?

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Posted: 9/15/2007 12:13 AM

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Warp wrote:

I have never understood the need for some people to split their archives into a myriad of small files. It wasn't useful 15 years ago, and it's much less useful today (when >100MB files are extremely common). It just doesn't make any sense.

Err, split files like this have always been, and will always be, useful to dial-up users who don't have second phone lines.

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Posted: 9/15/2007 12:59 AM

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Not true, files that are a couple of gigs in size that the author may not want shared on Bittorrent are perfect candidates for splitting. Say photoshop or something else similar that needs to be shared on a few different http sites. (But yes, I agree for something that's going to be shared on Bittorrent, it is dumb)

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Posted: 9/15/2007 3:15 AM

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VANDAL

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Is it possible to repair the archive with WinRar? There should be an option for that and if it doesn't work then something went wrong during either downloading or something on the uploader's side.

Posted: 9/15/2007 3:22 AM

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bkDJ

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you suck at piracy fyi

Posted: 9/15/2007 3:47 AM

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mushroom

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is there a file called "DC - Jet Gind Radio(self)(CDI).rar" in there? anything without a ".partxx"?

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Posted: 9/15/2007 11:02 AM

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Warp

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upthorn wrote:

Err, split files like this have always been, and will always be, useful to dial-up users who don't have second phone lines.

I have heard that argument before, and I have never understood it. How is having a dialup any different from having a 100Mbps optic cable in this regard? No matter what the speed of your connection, the connection can drop at any moment for whatever reason. You'd better use a downloading software which can resume an interrupted download, no matter what your downloading speed is. Why would downloading speed make any difference? I can't think of any other reason why dialup would make a difference either. AFAIK it's not like it was cheaper to download 10 files of 10MB each than one file of 100MB (assuming, again, that you are using a software which can resume an interrupted download, which you should have anyways, regardless of your connection speed and price).

Posted: 9/15/2007 11:13 AM

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Kles

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mmbossman wrote:

Not true, files that are a couple of gigs in size that the author may not want shared on Bittorrent are perfect candidates for splitting. Say photoshop or something else similar that needs to be shared on a few different http sites. (But yes, I agree for something that's going to be shared on Bittorrent, it is dumb)

Blackcats Games is particularily guilty of this. They justify it as it "reducing size and download time" when: 1) You need to have the original chunks to seed and if it's a PC game, the actual file needs to be there too, so it instead increases size 2) The amount of time it takes to extract is likely longer than the amount of extra time it would take to download. Incompetant retards, the lot of them. As for your problem, Swedishmartin, redownload parts 04 and 25 and put them in the folder that the rest are in.

Posted: 9/15/2007 12:25 PM

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Warp wrote:

I have never understood the need for some people to split their archives into a myriad of small files. It wasn't useful 15 years ago, and it's much less useful today (when >100MB files are extremely common). It just doesn't make any sense.

It is useful when transfer resume wasn't possible and Internet connection was slow.

Posted: 9/15/2007 12:45 PM

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ZeXr0 wrote:

It is useful when transfer resume wasn't possible

We are talking about year... ? Note that it's still being done today.

and Internet connection was slow.

What does that have to do with this? Why would it make a difference? Fast connections can suddenly fail, you know.

Posted: 9/15/2007 11:24 PM

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Tombad

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The split up archives for copyrighted material usually come directly from the scene releases. Scene standards dictate how it needs to be packaged to avoid nuking. Not that it helps in the BT circles, but I guess the rationale is that people who obtain the packages from other sources can help seed.

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Posted: 9/16/2007 4:32 PM

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Swedishmartin

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bkDJ wrote:

you suck at piracy fyi

I know.

Kles wrote:

As for your problem, Swedishmartin, redownload parts 04 and 25 and put them in the folder that the rest are in.

Doing that now...

mushroom wrote:

is there a file called "DC - Jet Gind Radio(self)(CDI).rar" in there? anything without a ".partxx"?

Nope.

VANDAL wrote:

Is it possible to repair the archive with WinRar? There should be an option for that and if it doesn't work then something went wrong during either downloading or something on the uploader's side.

Nope.

mmbossman wrote:

Check to make sure all of the download files are the same size (except the last one), you may have an error in downloading one of the parts fully.

Yes, they are.

Posted: 9/20/2007 1:11 PM

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Swedishmartin

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Awwright! After a quick re-download everything works fine. :)