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Using WinRAR (and other Archive Tips)

November 14, 07 by sharky   4,028  views  

Typically, proper pirated releases are always compressed; and therefore require an external program to open and extract the files. Here are some tips for extracting, fixing, opening multiple ZIP/RAR files and renaming groups of files at the same time.

Opening Compressed files

Many files sent over the Internet are compressed as *.ZIP or *.RAR files. This is done for two reasons: One; A ZIP/RAR file essentially has a “shell” around it to protect it from data corruption during transmission. Two; It makes the package smaller, or breaks a larger package (like a movie) into multi-parts to be reconstructed by the downloader. The second reason is particularly important to those popular websites that offer free file hosting, where the allowable file size is usually limited to somewhere between 100MB and 500MB - far too small to support a regular extracted DVD ‘ripped’ movie.

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