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    i have a question about bit torrent downloads. i downloaded a movie file, its about 700mb in size, when it finished downloading i looked in the folder i had downloaded it too only to discover that it was quite a few win rar archive files along with some files that have extension .r** the ** represents to numbers.there must be about 50 files in the folder altogether. my question is what do i do with them? how do they make a lrage avi file? if you know what i need to do to make the avi please let me know.
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    Open either the .rar, or the .r01 if there is no .rar inside winrar.

    drag the file out, it should shoot though the archives for you and pull the file out.
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    ok i will give that a go when i get home from work, i did look inside one rar file and saw an avi file which said it was 700mb but i thought how can that be in there when the whole folder it was in was only 700mb yet there where another 50 odd files in the whole folder 20 or so of which were rar files. thanks for the reply i will give it a go this evening.
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    Each of those rar files is a piece of the movie. Wen you use the rar program it puts it all together for you in the correct order. The file size you saw was probably for the entire movie when put together again.
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    so do i extract the first rar file in that folder to a new folder that i create? sorry if that is a stupid question, but i am fairly new to bit torrent and this is the first time i have downloaded a folder containing a whole load of rar files as a movie.
    by the way tgpo is that the guy from flock of seagulls as your avatar?
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    Originally Posted by luvvbuzz
    by the way tgpo is that the guy from flock of seagulls as your avatar?
    Yeah man, that was him

    Typically, at elast when I go this on the mac, I load the index file into a program and it'll do everything for you. There should be one file there that is different than the rest of them. You'll load that file and it tells the program how to put everything back together again.
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    just wanted to say, i got home 10 mins ago and tried what you guys suggested and it worked brilliantly, thanks for your help guys much appreciated.
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