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rar. files

March 15th 2007, 04:05 AM
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Znex
Peasant He/Him Australia
Oh hey. 
How do you open these?! I've tried opening them with Blender(see Dink Models(blend.)) but it doesn't work! How do I open them?
March 15th 2007, 04:28 AM
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cypry
Peasant He/Him Romania
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. 
winzip, winace, winrar, power archiver... do these names tell you something?
March 15th 2007, 04:56 AM
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Znex
Peasant He/Him Australia
Oh hey. 
Ummm...no. Not really. Only that it has something to do with Windows.
March 15th 2007, 07:11 AM
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rabidwolf9
Peasant He/Him United States
twitch.tv/rabidwolf9 
I've never heard of those either I downloaded something called 7-zip to open .rar files.

Well actually I have heard of winzip, doesn't it cost money though?
March 15th 2007, 08:20 AM
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GOKUSSJ6
Peasant He/Him Poland
Everyone should get a pizza for free in each week. 
WinRAR also open's 7-zip file's.And i always use it.
March 15th 2007, 03:52 PM
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cypry
Peasant He/Him Romania
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. 
Well, I have power archiver installed, but total commander treats archives like folders, so usually i don't need it.
March 15th 2007, 07:33 PM
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Chrispy
Peasant He/Him Canada
I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to.I guess. 
I use winrar a fair bit, but it doesn't work all that well sometimes on certain types of rar archives.
I'm actually looking for a better alternative.
March 16th 2007, 09:17 AM
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magicman
Peasant They/Them Netherlands duck
Mmmm, pizza. 
I'm a happy 7-zip user. It can only package to 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR, but it can unpackage a lot of other things (including .rar). Though if you use .ace files often, it can't package nor unpackage them.
March 16th 2007, 06:01 PM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
A RAR file, is an archive file that can contain multiple files. Just like zip, tar, gz, bz2, dmod (!), 7z, ace... The zip and rar formats are probably the most common in Windows, while the tar, gz and bz2 formats are more common in Linux.

You can open any of these with any good archiver program (WinRAR, WinAce, or something completely free like 7zip and ZipGenius).
March 17th 2007, 03:41 AM
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Chrispy
Peasant He/Him Canada
I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to.I guess. 
Some else also recommended 7-zip, and I tried it, but I couldn't get it to work. I could access the file(which was more than winrar did) and I could see what was in it, but when I'd extract the files, they would extract to /dev/null it seems.
March 17th 2007, 04:05 AM
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Harshit
Peasant He/Him India
Milderr!! 4: Return of the Legend 
When you open the archive with winrar or 7-zip, select all the files first before clicking on 'extract to' button. By default only the "."folder is selected so you were getting an empty folder.

Tell me if this was your problem.
March 17th 2007, 10:51 PM
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Chrispy
Peasant He/Him Canada
I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to.I guess. 
Nope. I tried extracting one file, all the files, even right-clicking the rar file and selecting extract here. Nothing worked.