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13 March 2006

Downloaded something with Bittorent... Why so many files and what are they?→[More:]
So I just dl Sopranos and usually when I BT something, I get one avi file. I got 27 files with names like:

the.sopranos.601.hdtv-lol.nfo
the.sopranos.601.hdtv-lol.r15
the.sopranos.601.hdtv-lol.rar

etc.

WTF do I do with them? I'm on OS X. Help me get my fix.

post by: dobbs at: 20:38 | 9 comments

Well, that's a single archive split into different parts. Not sure why they did that. There should be a way to combine them, but I dunno how on OSX.

posted by selfnoise 13 March | 20:42

if you just doubleclick on the regular .rar one (without numbers), all of them should start unzipping...they're segments of a movie or whatever.

when i do it, a program called unrarx opens and does it all, giving you an ok after each segment. let it run til it stops and says all ok.

i'm 10.3.9 : >

posted by amberglow 13 March | 20:43

What I love is when I get a download that is rar'd and when I unrar it, it's a zip file. I've gotten rars of rars, too. And I'm pretty sure I've had something like this three layers deep, not just two.

posted by kmellis 13 March | 20:52

Okay, thanks!

Amber that worked. The thing that was throwing me is when I was clicking on the rar (which had a zip icon) file, nothing was happening. I guess stuffit wasn't handling the file for some reason. DL'd that unrarx program and that did the track!

*kisses*

Now, can y'all do anything about my acid reflux?

posted by dobbs 13 March | 20:56

zantac : >

posted by amberglow 13 March | 21:03

smartass. :)

(and that shit don't work no way no how)

posted by dobbs 13 March | 21:49

Take two Pepcid and call me in the morning.

posted by deborah 13 March | 23:35

or tums, or pepto, or milk, or rolaids or ...

posted by amberglow 13 March | 23:52

Well, that's a single archive split into different parts. Not sure why they did that.

This may have originally been posted to a binary newsgroup, where this kind of splitting is common to get around file size limits.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 14 March | 16:47

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