Help with .sfv

[marcello]

Ok, I have a folder that has 48 parts to it and a .sfv file. The 48 parts will open with winrar, but I don't think that's what I want to do. What program do I need to use to combine these 48 parts into the 1 part it's supposed to be? Thanks

 

[PHiuR]

is this war easy?
just extract the winrar stuff into 1 folder and it'll work..dont need to use the .sfv

 

[marcello]

Originally posted by: PHiuR
is this war easy?
just extract the winrar stuff into 1 folder and it'll work..dont need to use the .sfv

That'd be huge, it says each part is 700 MB unpacked.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

WinRAR takes a file (700MB) and breaks it up. Right-click on each individual (one of the 48 parts) file and go to properties. You'll see that the file itself is not 700MB. Each file should be ~14.5MB. The 700 that you see is what the resulting .sfv file will be when WinRAR is finished extracting all 48 pieces and combining them back together into the original file that was compressed and split.

Just open the first one (or there may be an non-numbered rar file in the list) and have WinRAR extract it. WinRAR will extract the contents of the first file, then automatically open/extract the contents of the second file, and so on until the original .sfv file has been restored.

 

[marcello]

Originally posted by: Nik
WinRAR takes a file (700MB) and breaks it up. Right-click on each individual (one of the 48 parts) file and go to properties. You'll see that the file itself is not 700MB. Each file should be ~14.5MB. The 700 that you see is what the resulting .sfv file will be when WinRAR is finished extracting all 48 pieces and combining them back together into the original file that was compressed and split.

Just open the first one (or there may be an non-numbered rar file in the list) and have WinRAR extract it. WinRAR will extract the contents of the first file, then automatically open/extract the contents of the second file, and so on until the original .sfv file has been restored.

Sweet, thanks a lot :beer:

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Anytime, bro.

 

[fs5]

stop pirating.

 

[dawks]

The .sfv file is a data integrity verification tool. It is separate from WinRAR and those 48 files. Its used to insure all of those 48 files are not corrupt. It does so through some mathematical Algorithm. You'll need a program to take advantage of it. QuickSFV works nicely. Verifying the files isnt that important, as WinRAR does the same thing when you first load the archive.

And as Nik says, WinRAR has, in this case broken a large 700meg file (or multiple files) into much smaller parts. Its good for those with slow connections, or un-reliable connections. When you extract the contents, WinRAR is just putting those individual parts back together again.

 

[vailr]

QuickPAR 9.1 handles .sfv files:
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
QuickPAR can also do the re-combining function, in certain instances.