winrar

[addnative03]

Can someone help me whenever I d/l a tar or rar file off of IRC one of the files always says crc failed and the file is corrupt.

[redwudz]

whenever I d/l a tar or rar file off of IRC one of the files always says crc failed and the file is corrupt.

Probably because the people that uploaded said file don't really care if their files are any good. You have to consider the source.

[addnative03]

I just winrard a cd I had that all the songs work and when I extracted it it came up with corrupt files

[redwudz]

About 80% of the files I have dl with RAR have had problems. I'm not a fan of the format. Apparently a CRC? file can be included with the files to verify/correct the problems. Very few uploaders seem to include this. I have always wondered if the uploaders are just trying to mess with us. As far as repairing RAR files, there are some possibilites. You might do a search for RAR repair on the net to see if you can find anything. Me, I gave up and look for files in a more reliable source/format.

[The village idiot]

If you are getting errors for files that you are archiving, you have a problem with your machine! What it is, is a much more difficult question. Could you cut/paste the exact error message? (leave out any file title information, I don't really want to know what you are downloading)

And if you are getting corupted downloads, you need to find a better way :P I get about .1% that are corrupt after download, and those are almost always the fault of the uploader, or more likely their ISP.

[addnative03]

For the corrupt files on the CD it says

C:\Program Files\mirc\download\catch_22-Dinosaur_Sounds-2003-iTS.rar: CRC failed in catch_22-Dinosaur_Sounds-2003-iTS\06-catch_22-dreams_of_venus-its.mp3 the files is corrupt

[p0rnLiME]

Hm... looks like you are trying to unpack something illegal...

Update your WinRAR program to the newest version and try once again to unpack...

If this don't work I just have to say like the others here, your source is screwed!

[coyote]

Try unpacking with a program such as powerarchiver. It corrects simple errors within archives

[theDruid]

UltimateZip's a really good freeware archive app, with support for most formats, and some 'repair' functions.

The CRC is a checksum, which is supposed to indicate whether the file is corrupt or not. (AFAIK)