Altbinz not decoding

[paulbrannan]

Hi,

several files that I downloaded overnight have not unrarred I have done them manually and the files were all complete and unrarred fine. I haven't chnged any program settings either and have sufficient disk space.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[davidq666]

so they did decode but didn't unrar?
were ther par files included?
are there any relevant log entries?

[paulbrannan]

They didn't decode and small par2 file was present as were par2 files in queue.
Looking at log, I have the following entry:-

[19/06/2010 10:36:23] [PAR2&Unrar] Error[12]corrupt data
[19/06/2010 10:36:23] [PAR2&Unrar] "blah.rar" unrar failed


Thanks

[davidq666]

they must have decoded because there were files u could unrar manualy, if they hadn't decoded there would have been no files in the dl folder. was there a repair before it tried to unrar?

[paulbrannan]

Hi,

yes, my mistake, they didn't unrar. ALso as I said all files were complete so repair wasnt needed.

[Hecks]

I'm not sure what the question is.  The Log shows par2 corruption error.  Alt.Binz won't unrar unless par2 check passes.

[davidq666]

yeah but why was there no attempt repair and why could he unrar manualy without a problem?

so i do see the confusion, but no clear way yet how to solve that mystery...

if the collection was indeed complete but failed to unrar, logic would say the problem lies with the parchecking. do u remember if ther were there any partial rars? you know where it says part34 and part34.1 and each part contains a certain portion of the blocks part 34 is supposed to contain?

[paulbrannan]

I had restarted AB, so that was the only one left in the log, but all other files about 20 exhibted the same behaviour.
With that being said, I downloaded a few short test files today and they unrarred OK, so maybe it was just a blip.

Cheers.

[paulbrannan]

Im not sure sorry David and the files have been deleted now.I'll monitor the situation and inform you if it reoccurs.

thanks

[davidq666]

I had restarted AB, so that was the only one left in the log, but all other files about 20 exhibted the same behaviour.
With that being said, I downloaded a few short test files today and they unrarred OK, so maybe it was just a blip.

Cheers.

the log doesn't get lost with a restart u can find it in the AB/log named after the date in the fashion yyyymmdd

[paulbrannan]

You mean if you have log to file enabled? I didnt unfortunately.
Also, now I come to think of it, in the par2 tab, i had all the films listed. Later when I tried to delete them, they didn't.
Instead they remained but the name was ghosted. Does that mean anything?

ta

[davidq666]

You mean if you have log to file enabled? I didnt unfortunately.
Also, now I come to think of it, in the par2 tab, i had all the films listed. Later when I tried to delete them, they didn't.
Instead they remained but the name was ghosted. Does that mean anything?

ta

you should enable it can be helpfull from time to time... no that ghosting it quite commun it happens quite often AB is busy with somthing for example: unraring parchecking repairing or copying something with explorer.

[Hecks]

It seems the problem here was corruption of the par2 files themselves.  Should be reproducible if so.

[paulbrannan]

Yes, but many of the files didnt need pars as were complete. A whole TV series failed to unrar, but worked fine for me when done manually.

[davidq666]

Yes, but many of the files didnt need pars as were complete. A whole TV series failed to unrar, but worked fine for me when done manually.

yeah but the pars are not only needed for repairing but for unraring aswell at leat one that is. but i don't think it's a corrupt par2 because most of the time a corupt par2 simply doesn't apear in the par2 tab at all...