Corrupt RAR FIle

starwars7

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Dec 30, 2005
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Hey everyone, any advice on how to fix a corrupt RAR file? Its a home movie file that I zipped to save on space because I wasn't about to use it for a while

THanks
 

cubby1223

Lifer
May 24, 2004
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I'm pretty sure it's gone.

However I will give this advice for the future, video files are already in a compressed format, they cannot be compressed any further by zipping or using winrar. The gains are maybe an itty-tiny-bit if you're lucky. So don't turn them into winrar archives next time.
 

Nocturnal

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Jan 8, 2002
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Next time you can create those .par files so that if it does become corrupted you can use the par files to restore them.