Passworded Rar Parts

[simonsays440]

I recently received a video from a friend which is slip into 5 parts, entitiled
"video".rar "video".part2. rar, "video".part3.rar, etc. These videos are also passworded. When i open the first file with stuffit and type in the password it shows me a bar which fills and then it asks for "video".r00, which i dont have. when i choose "video".part2.rar it wont accept it and will sometimes crash. How do i handle this problem.

[terryj]

go have your friend re-download the video and get all the files.
*shrug* or
have him contact the Poster for the missing .r00.

without it, you got nothing.

An rar set cannot go forward to unpack if all files aren't present.
If you have par2 files, you can try to re-create the .r00 out of those.

[Case]

"video".rar "video".part2.rar, "video".part3.rar
stuffit asks for "video".r00

As you may know, there are two naming conventions for segmented RAR archives:
• foo.rar, foo.r00, foo.r01, foo.r02, foo.r03, ...
• foo.part1.rar, foo.part2.rar, foo.part3.rar, ...
Your file set apears to be mixing these naming conventions, possibly confusing the RAR unpacking utility of your choice.
The solution could be as simple as renaming video.rar to video.part1.rar.

StuffIt's implementation of RAR unpacking is/used to be less complete than some other utilities. If the suggestion above doesn't help, do try some alternative utility for RAR archives (SimplyRAR, UnRarX, The Unarchiver, BetterZip, MacPAR deLuxe.)