hi, i had a problem that most of the time when i download rar file whether using IDM or flashget, some of my rar always corrupt...
is there anything i can do about it ? thanks in advance

This post has been edited by x'tine: Dec 5 2008, 04:02 PM

U mean corrupt as in u cannot extract the file out? why not try using other download managers and see if it works

i think u might want to upgrade your version of rar. get the latest version and see if it fixes the issue

Maybe something wrong with your WinRAR?

Download WinZip

It can open .zip . .rar , .cbr files.

This post has been edited by JonSpark: Dec 5 2008, 10:27 PM

can the file inside the .rar file be opened?

it could be that the file hasn't been properly 100% downloaded.

You should never use download managers/download accelerators to download compressed/archived files. Reason is because certain download managers/download accelerators break-up a certain while which may be compressed/archived and has to recompile the file thus causing problems with already compressed/archived files. Hope you understand.

but if you are not using download manager, it will be slow as hell...thats weird...
and yes i am using the latest rar...

This post has been edited by x'tine: Dec 6 2008, 12:53 AM

Yes, it'll have to be slower because there's nothing accelerating the speed.
PS: Download speed depends on a lot of factors, which I won't list out.

use 7-zip,
i can extract even corrupt/unfinish download files.

too bad... i try to use winzip now
see how it goes...
do you guys think it have to do with my harddisk ?

Nope, nothing to do with your HDD. I'll check back on this thread tomorrow, gonna sleep now.

did u happen use nvidia network drivers?...

not most, some of mine also corrupted due to speed flowing.

winrar is better than winzip

+1

and, TS, if you constantly getting corrupted files after downloads, next time, try download the same corrupted file(s), but save it to another partition, or better, another hard disk. If it's comes out fine, no corruption, then it may indicate that your system may have bad sectors. I happen to have the problem too before. Hope this help

Bro, can't quite agree. I've downloaded ".RAR" files through download managers/accelerators such as DAP/FlashGet/IDM but some of them get corrupted when I try to extract them. When I disable my download managers/accelerators, and then I re-download them from the same source, it'll be able to extract properly. But yes, your theory is perfectly acceptable also.

Your statement is true though, especially when you download driver files from (for example) DELL FTP server. You can download from the FTP using download manager, but make sure it's only using 1 connection (read:no split). Using multiple connection (which of course speeds thing up) will make downloaded files corrupted even though it's finished. Usually RAR files are downloaded from Rapidshare and/or Megaupload (and other filehosting service) and from my experiences, I never experience file corruption unless 1) The files uploaded itself is corrupted; or 2) There's bad sector or your HDD is dying.

Possible. Try downloading to another disk. RAR are very sensitive to corruption. Frequent CRC check fail can be caused by a failing disk but if the RAR is always fine without download accelerator, then it's not your HDD.

Agree with you. Most of the time, I only manage the download (Play, Pause, Stop), I rarely accelerate the speed.

i agree with him..may be u must download one by one and Que it..before this i download 4-5 file at the same time but when i extract it, it error..so i just make Que of them and it will download one by one