Comments on: A tale of two losing streaks

By: squarepush7r

squarepush7r — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

@morci: it doesn’t work.
I open the first archive and there’s a file with the extention .7z inside, which I can create
but it tells me the file cannot be opened as an archive under os x. I tried with windows (crossover) and it says ’success’ after less than a second and no file is created.
Any tips?

By: morci

morci — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

@squarepush7r: Yes, that's because of this weird numbering scheme (.001, .002, ...) used by 7zip when you ask for split volumes...

By: squarepush7r

squarepush7r — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

By the way, tip for new JDownloader users:
Don’t let HJSplit merge an incomplete set of archives into one big file and delete the original files, leaving you with one and a half GB of !@£%%^

By: squarepush7r

squarepush7r — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

It should work coz theres no encryption or anything randomised, hopefully it does.
I’ll tell you. Tomorrow

By: morci

morci — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

@raptormage: Well, I tried to re-build the archive with the same files in the same order and with the same options (I'm using the command-line version of 7zip). This should produce the same results (at least I hope so). I'm not using any compression (-mx0 option). I could as well just split the files in binary chunks but my experience is that Win users find more easy to use something like 7zip that should also provide some form of error checking (without the need of calculating MD5s).

By: raptormage

raptormage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

@morci: I didn't think you could use files across archive sets. I'm curious to see if this works. Did you use any compression while archiving?

By: morci

morci — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

OK, here is the missing file. I had to re-create the whole archive, I hope I did it right. Let me know if you still have problems with it.

http://rapidshare.com/files/311128051/Raptors_vs_Heat-2009-11-20.7z.009

By: morci

morci — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

@squarepush7r: Yes, there must be something wrong if they are all 200kb. I'm gonna check what went wrong. Do not delete the files you have, I'll try to upload the missing part, eventually.

By: squarepush7r

squarepush7r — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

@morci: is there a 9th part you could have forgotten? i cannot possitively say that they don't work coz i screwed up and i'm redownloading them, but it seems strange that they are all exactly 200,000,000 bytes.

By: morci

morci — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

@redjediknight: I guess you’re using Windows (which I’m not). As far as I understand 7zip installs a windows shell extension so I guess you just have to right click on the first file and select the extract option. Of course this assumes 7zip recognizes its own split archives which is something I’m not sure about.
Otherwise just run 7zip, double click on the first file and click on Extract on the toolbar.
Let me know if this solves your problem.

By: redjediknight

redjediknight — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Hey Morci! I can’t seem to unzip the files. I tried everything.

By: morci

morci — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Here are the rapidshare links. Use 7zip http://www.7-zip.org/ as usual to extract the files. If you do not have a premium account just put the links in JDownloader http://jdownloader.org/ and let it do the hard work for you. Probably not faster than using bittorrent but works across firewalls.

By: raptormage

raptormage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I’m sorry about spoiling the Jazz game for you.
I’ll try to keep spoilers out of future posts.

By: squarepush7r

squarepush7r — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Argh you spoilt the jazz game for me with your title ! I’m downloading at 10 kbps till the end of the month, so i’m one game behind schedule at the moment
I hope the jazz game isnt too one-sided like the nuggets game, anyway they better kick some dwyane wade’s behind, just don’t tell me in the next topic lol!
Don’t change a thing though, cause I like your pre-game notes.
U never really said anything about games outcomes in previous topics, but I knew I was taking a risk before having a peek at it. I’ll be more carefull in the future but please don’t change a thing.