From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 22:18:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C9516A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:18:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EEDCF43D39 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:18:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m@MHoerich.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2005 22:18:39 -0000 Received: from pD9514650.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO localhost) [217.81.70.80] by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 11 Apr 2005 00:18:39 +0200 X-Authenticated: #5114400 Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:18:37 +0200 From: Mario Hoerich To: "T.F. Cheng" Message-ID: <20050410221836.GA620@Pandora.MHoerich.de> References: <20050409163604.32150.qmail@web51001.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050409163604.32150.qmail@web51001.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: How to fix failed CRC file? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:18:42 -0000 # T.F. Cheng: > Hi, I have downloaded some multimedia files from a > news server, and they are usually coming in rar format > and lots of pieces. I use par2repair to fix them, but > one of the files failed, and reported to be CRC > failed. Can anybody tell me how to fix this? thanks!! Basically, redownload the broken file. It might save you some time to get an md5-sum of the server's file first, in case it's already broken there. FWIW, you could also try unraring with the kb-switch, but I doubt unrar can handle a CRC-error. Regards, Mario --