Author Topic: Extract and verify RAR archives.  (Read 2011 times)

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Extract and verify RAR archives.
« on: March 30, 2011, 11:38:16 PM »
To install a PS3 game I found that the quickest way is to extract the release (rars) into a USB HDD (NTFS), hook it up to the PS3, load up the NTFS drivers in Multiman and copy the files into the internal HDD.
A few days ago I installed a game (Resistance) and it would hang towards the end of the intro cinematic; turns out the AVI (in the USB HDD) was corrupted. I re extracted the avi and replaced it and everything worked like a charm.
Since this kind of corruption is not so uncommon here comes my question:
is there any archiver or winrar plugin that verifies each file as it is extracted for integrity? Or maybe a utility that creates a CRC table of each file in a folder (and sub folder) and compares it to the files inside a rar archive?

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Extract and verify RAR archives.
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2011, 01:56:24 PM »
For resolving given trouble you can use repair rar. It repairs corrupted .rar from any devices(hard drives, flash cards), works under all Windows OS, doesn't modify rar data after working.

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Re: Extract and verify RAR archives.
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2013, 09:03:03 PM »
I am the original poster. Just wanted to say that the rarfile library for Python is incredibly easy to use and I developed a utility in Python that creates an .sfv file out of a rar and makes it easy to verify extracted rars :D