Repairing A Corrupt RAR-ZIP Archive guide

I had a problem earlier this week where I had downloaed a large file. The file had been compressed in to a rar file. I was getting the error message that the file was corupt.

I did some searching on the internet and managed to find a very helpful article explaning how to correct corrupt files.

If you ever download files from the internet, this will be very handy information for you.

by: GlobalFusion

Step 1:

Open WinRAR and browse to the folder with your .rar/.zip file.

Step 2:

Highlight the file and click the Repair button from the tool bar.

Step 3:

In the pop-up window, select "Treat the corrupt archive as RAR/ZIP" depending on which type of archive you are trying to repair.

Step 4:You may get a "Suspicious Entry" pop-up. If so, select All. This may happen several times while repairing.

Step 5:

After WinRAR has completed repairing the archive, click on Close.

Step 6:

To extract your file, highlight your new rebuilt archive.

Step 7:Next select Commands>Extract without confirmation

Step 8:

The files will start extracting.

Step 9:

The archived files will be extracted to the same folder as the repaired archive.

About The Author

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Repairing A Corrupt RAR-ZIP Archive can help your corrupt files become workable again!

As you can see from the article, using this guide you can fix and repair corrupt files. I tried this on my downloaded file and it worked. My file was over 800 meg in size so this was a pleasent releif.