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Date:      Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:18:37 +0200
From:      Mario Hoerich <lists@MHoerich.de>
To:        "T.F. Cheng" <tfcheng@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to fix failed CRC file?
Message-ID:  <20050410221836.GA620@Pandora.MHoerich.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050409163604.32150.qmail@web51001.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050409163604.32150.qmail@web51001.mail.yahoo.com>

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# 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
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