Empty folders after you extract Rars?

[LordThing]

Not sure what topic this falls under, so I will post here.


Seems like when I create rars with Winrar and use another multi-compression program like Filzip or ZipGenius it extracts the file but the folder is empty. Yet, if you extract that same rar file with Winrar, it comes out just fine.

I don't get any errors....Is there something special Winrar is putting into the compression scheme that prevents the other programs from reading it properly but not error out?

 

[sandorski]

Could be, you can get around it by turning your RAR file into a self-extracting EXE, it only adds a little to the file size.