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hindibuff
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_ 		21. October 2008 @ 22:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi,

I always get these big files that extract into 001,002 etc.
then I have to extract them to get the original file.

I am wondering if there is a way to avoid the middle step and have winrar extract the original file in one shot (basically doing the middle step of extracting 001 and 002s in a temp folder somewhere).

Any ideas?
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varnull
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_ 		22. October 2008 @ 00:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hahaha.. what is the middle file.. is it an iso by any chance.. because every time I see winrar installed it is wrongly associated with .iso files.
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hindibuff
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_ 		27. October 2008 @ 13:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No,

Not an iso. The middle files are the extracted archive bits that end in 001, 002,003 and so on..
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varnull
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_ 		27. October 2008 @ 15:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
so it has been packed into a multi part archive twice?? that doesn't make much sense...

Anyway I thought about your problem and I have a solution, but it doesn't save any work because you will have to edit the .bat file you create every time you have an archive which is named differently.. unless you get crafty..

Lets do it..

Open notepad (not word or wordpad)

make a new file with these contents.. 

start /b /wait cmd /c C:\path\to\winrar\winrar.exe *.*r > big.rar
start /b /wait cmd /c C:\path\to\winrar\winrar.exe big.rar
And then save and rename unrar.bat

When you want to run it copy it into the directory containing your rar archive and double click on it. It should unpack a multi part rar archive then unpack the resulting big rar file created.

Hope you know something about batch files... you need the full path to winrar.exe (usually C:\program files\winrar\winrar.exe) and my dos batch file building is a little rusty. I haven't done any batch file creation from scratch in more years than I care to think about ;)

Please note::.. I haven't ever done this with winrar.. only the dos version of rar.. so it may be buggy or not work at all.
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 27. October 2008 @ 15:25
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binkie7
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_ 		28. October 2008 @ 17:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
moved to something a bit more appropriate then user guides :)
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