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[lilly333]

Hello,

I'm using amule on a Mac OS 10.4.11.
I've downloaded 262.8MB (a whole album) of shared music. It came as a .rar-file. Once I de-archived it, using UnRarX, all I could see where a few pics of the cd box worth of roughly 10MB - where did all the rest go? I wonder now, wether it's just a scam??

A lot of people are interested in this file, happily downloading it from me - before I delete it, I want to make sure, that the music isn't hidden somewhere and for some reason I don't find it on my Mac?? (I've searched for it with spotlight and can't find it, though...)

If it is a scam, I'm wondering what makes the .rar file so big?

Any ideas? I'm a complete newbie that appreciates any help and insights. Thanks!

Lilly

[Vollstrecker]

That's maybe something you should ask the devs of UnRarX

[lilly333]

UnRarX works fine on everything else... I think it was just a bogus file and deleted it. Is there a way to recognize it beforehand? I've read in some posts that a high compression suggests that the file is actually empty. Where can I see the compression of a file? Is it something that can be seen already before downloading it?

Thank you for your help

[Archmage]

If the file did have 262.8 MB before uncompressing, than there must something in it. A high compress file would be have a few GBs after you extract it.

[lilly333]

aaahhh... ok... got that. thank you! but were was it than? couldn't find anything...   

[skolnick]

Maybe using the official unrar instead of a third party product will help. The file might have been created with a new rar version that your unrarx can't handle:

http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm

Regards.

[Vollstrecker]

I don't know how Mac is deciding which icon to use for a file. If it's based in the contents like on Linux, the tipp with the new version  could apply. If it's based on the file-extension like in Win, try to open it in a Mediaplayer to make sure you didn't get a fake.

[Stu Redman]

Once I de-archived it, using UnRarX, all I could see where a few pics of the cd box worth of roughly 10MB - where did all the rest go?

If she got anything out of it it can't have been a renamed movie. My best guess is the archive was partly broken, and UnRarX just extracted the files with correct checksums and dumped the rest.

[Vollstrecker]

Sure, was the wrong thread. She should try to extract them on console. I had some problems like this, too. The problem was, that some files have been free for all, and the intresting part was secured by a password. Unfortunately ark doesn't ask for a pass, it just stops extracting.