Repairing RARs with PAR2 and Quickpar
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: towerblocks
Download Quickpar (http://www.quickpar.org.uk/)
Configuring QuickPar:
After installing, open QuickPar and click 'Options', Copy the settings as below in the picture and press ok.
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After you have download all RAR files and the first PAR2 file, open the PAR2 file to verify the downloaded files. QuickPar will start and this might be the result:
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As you can see two RAR files are incomplete (Freeware Collection.part6.rar and Freeware Collection.part7.rar). The bar shows us that we need to acquire 14 more blocks before we can repair the downloaded files. Usually a couple of PAR2 files are posted together with the RAR files (in this case we've already downloaded 10 blocks) but if there aren't enough PAR2 blocks available, we have to ask the poster to create and upload more blocks. This means that you don't have to tell the poster which files are missing or incomplete, you can just say how many blocks you need.
The 'Monitor' functionality can be very handy: when you keep QuickPar activated while downloading, it will check the download directory and verify the newly downloaded files immediately. When you activate 'AutoRepair', QuickPar will start repairing as soon as enough PAR2 blocks are downloaded.
When you have downloaded enough blocks, hit the 'Repair' button to start repairing.
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After QuickPar is finished, the result will be:
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As you can see all files are repaired! Now it is time to extract the files using WinRAR.
Posted by: muchspl3
needs to be sticky'ed in more forums
Posted by: lynx
You need to fix the images.
I suspect the site doesn't allow hot-linking.
Posted by: {I}{K}{E}
You do not have to change the preferred block size if you never create PAR2 files yourself.
If you set the preferred block size for yEnc to 5.000 lines. You need to change the number of lines in yEnc to 5.000
(CTRL+P -> Program -> Default Max Lines Per Part)
Posted by: mickeyboyinoz
hey guys....a quick question and please be gentle with me.....i,m a noob with newsbin....i recently downloaded nacho libre,and it was missing parts so i can not unzip the rar files....so i downloaded quickpar.....is there anyway i can fix it rather than downloading the thing all over again....as i was told you have to have quickpar running WHILE you download....any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance.
Posted by: movbuff
Just install QuickPar and the run the PAR2 file, It will say how may par files you need. Get those and run that par file again. Then if you have enough it will repair the files and done.
Posted by: artsluver
I suggest that whenever you download anything download all the par2 files at the same time, that will save a lot of hassles later, and it is well worth the bandwidth.
Another thing I have noticed, you may not have enough blocks to make the repair even after you have checked all the par2 files. However, take a look and see if any of your par2 files are classified as "incomplete downloads", if so click the open button and add them. It seems quickpar doesn't look at the incomplete par2 files, but I have successfully repaired several files that didn't have enough blocks, but manually adding in the incomplete par2 files.
Hopes this helps, as these par2 files make such a difference in adding to your overall success downloading from newsgroups.
Cheers!
Posted by: meo
thanks for the help!
Posted by: uncle den
Cheers a great help :yup::yup::yup:
Posted by: nfsbeeddd
thanks for great help
Posted by: akeserla
Quickpar rules, Thanks for the great screenshots
Posted by: surubi
i needed this. big thx!
Posted by: DaVox
New to newsgroups, and I'm loving it. Quick, limitless, and oh yeah, you can recover missing rars! This guide just saved me from scrapping a 1gb file. Much thanks.
Posted by: pjnsmb
never heard of it until browsing this great site ! I'm putting it on my download list straight away
Posted by: erwin11
thanx
Posted by: tailz
Thanks, nice guide.
Posted by: mdp123
true true.. good program :pinch:
Posted by: Peacefulness32
me too
Posted by: moikan
thanks for the great guide!
Posted by: superfuzzy
With Newsleacher, incomplete files are all caps. So storybook.mp3 would appear as STORYBOOK.MP3 if Newsleacher suspects it is not complete.
Every time this has happened I click on the PAR2 and it has found the missing blocks and rebuilt the file.
Posted by: MediaSlayer
thanks for the insight, superfuzzy, i was wondering why my file was all caps! :)
Posted by: brotherdoobie
thanks for the insight, superfuzzy, i was wondering why my file was all caps! :)
You finally wise up,MS? :)
-bd
Posted by: Shando
thx
Posted by: Kuberr
Can't you just use Newsleecher Repair N Extract now?
Posted by: jenks69
Big Thanks! for the Tutorial i just wish i found it a few days ago, as i deleted alot of stuff i could have saved.
Posted by: Mr Kennedy
Just downloaded something but there was no PAR2 file these, is this always there?
Posted by: myminpins
:)
Posted by: KSA
Thank u v.much, ill save a copy of this thread for my later review :)
Posted by: Zairox
thanks, you helped me alot
Posted by: FlyingPJ
This is a great program. Thanks for the guide.
Posted by: dnero73
thanks i´m pretty new to newsgroups and this will help a lot
Posted by: DasFox
AutoUnpack is better guys. http://www.see-and-be.com/AutoUnpack/index.php
Posted by: Ludvig
The ultimate "Par n Rar" utility:
PAR BUDDY
http://www.parbuddy.dk/Default.htm
Ultimate because if you replace the par.exe in the ParBuddy directory by the par.exe AND the dll found in the following zip:
par2cmdline-0.4-tbb-20080116-win32.zip
http://chuchusoft.com/par2_tbb/index.html
you have a perfect multithreaded tool ( It uses winrar 3.70 library too) ! :yup:
Read the .txt cause it's interesting and don't forget to donate because this software is going to spare you a lot of time:
http://www.parbuddy.dk/Donate.htm
This is my little find for all you dedicated nzb finders.Thanks again,guys.
:fst:
Posted by: Muzza
Thanks to the OP.
Just fixed an 11GB file. Great post.
Posted by: chemistry_101
Okay.. this might be a stupid question, me being new to the whole usenet formus and such.. but here it goes: I've been trying to download TTSCC Disc 2 (Terminator) and it's missing 14 files but I only need 218 blocks:
1. How do I contact the poster?
2. I saw it on searching on Newzbin but my membership is with easynews how can I tell if it's the same download with the 14 missing files?
3. I'm not quite sure if I understand the process.. there are sites for finding the files then there are sites for actually downloading the files?
Any assistance would be appreciated!
Okay.. another problem...
I used quickpar to repair one of my downloads, it states that everything is there at at 100% but when I try to extract with winrar, it's still asking me for the missing files... What do I do?
Posted by: premanna
was very helpfull Thanks a lot :D
Posted by: SgtMajor
Okay.. this might be a stupid question, me being new to the whole usenet formus and such.. but here it goes: I've been trying to download TTSCC Disc 2 (Terminator) and it's missing 14 files but I only need 218 blocks:
1. How do I contact the poster?
2. I saw it on searching on Newzbin but my membership is with easynews how can I tell if it's the same download with the 14 missing files?
3. I'm not quite sure if I understand the process.. there are sites for finding the files then there are sites for actually downloading the files?
Any assistance would be appreciated!
Okay.. another problem...
I used quickpar to repair one of my downloads, it states that everything is there at at 100% but when I try to extract with winrar, it's still asking me for the missing files... What do I do?
This wasn't the thread for them questions, you should have started a new topic.
1. You don't, you post a fill request, or a request for more par files, in the group you got it from.
2. Because they will be posted to the same group at the same time as where you got them from in the first place, then they will be the same set you are looking for, sometimes they can be posted to different groups on different days and they will still belong to the same set, just because you found them via an alternative method doesn't mean they are different, they all search the same set of files so you can be confident you found what you was looking for.
3. Yes, usenet search index sites catalogues what is on usenet, you don't need a site to download the files, you need a client that can access usenet via your usenet provider (giganews, newsdemon, newshosting are paid for providers), you can however find sites that use files (newzbin files) that have done all the hard work for you by putting all the files into 1 index file that you then import into your client (newsleecher, newsbin etc) and it then pulls the files from usenet for you.
4. Ask if others are having the same problem.
Posted by: OldIronTits
Great job!