what are par files?

[NeoV]

If I am looking at a newsgroup, I know what RAR files are, but what are par files? I just DL'd something that had rar and par files...I just grabbed the RAR files, and everything worked fine, so what are the par files?

 

[Zim Hosein]

It's how they keep score in golf!

Actually, I'd like to know as well NeoV Anyone?

edit: Found this: http://www.giant.net.au/users/rupert/par/par2.htm

 

[rubix]

the par files he is speaking of are parity files and they are for warez/isos. they contain information to restore a damaged rar file. now we all know you steal software, oh no.

 

[Imported]

It's not just for warez/isos..

 

[Gunbuster]

They are parity files, for every 1 par you can recreate 1 missing rar of you juarez/porn download

 

[NeoV]

thanks to all the judges here....I was actually downloading a series of TV shows, so take your snotty-4ssed comments and stick'em..

 

[jonMEGA]

FSRaid is a data recovery tool that uses PAR files. If you're not sure what PAR files are, read on...
Have you ever downloaded a large set of files that is completely useless because a small subset of those files were corrupt or missing? This happens quite often in the Usenet Newsgroups.

Let's consider a common example: say there are 100 files on a website or newsgroup that you want to download. A common example is a set of RAR files (often named with extensions like rar, r01, r02, etc.) In order to extract this archive, you?ll need every single file in the RAR archive set. If any one file is corrupt, your entire RAR archive could be useless ? newsgroups are notorious for this.

If the person distributing these files had made a set of PAR files and placed them online, your problems might just be solved. Just download the PAR files and place them in the same directory as your data files. If the number of PAR files is equal to or exceeds the number of corrupt files, then the PAR files can be used to restore the original files.

PAR files contain very rigorous fingerprinting data on the original file set, so with a tool like FSRaid, you can accurately determine which of your original files is valid, which are corrupt, etc.

It doesn?t matter how many files are corrupt, as long as you have as many, or more, PAR files than you have corrupt or missing data files. It also doesn?t matter which files go bad. A single PAR file can restore any one of the original files.



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[ElFenix]

par rocks

 

[NeoV]

thank you Mega, that is exactly what I was looking for...thanks..