Comments on: Par2 Files Explained

By: taltamir

taltamir — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:05:48 +0000

Dante and jaima are full of shit shills who are just pushing a paid for usenet service. Don’t believe them. Even if some par files are corrupted and incomplete, as long as it is par2 it will have enough FRAGMENTS to repair.
Not that paid for usenet service is bad, I use one (i will not mar my credibility by saying which one), but their claims about “unreliability” is BS

Chris Knox, you right click on the .rar file and select “extract here”. This process was to REPAIR the MISSSING rar files. Once you have them all it is standard unrar procedure.

JDonner
While it is useful on DVD, it is most commonly used on usenet… usenet is a favorite because it gives you maxed out download speed, usenet is the only practical way to max out a 20 mbps fios connection with a p2p download. But that means putting up with broken files and fixing them…

Actually you can just get something like alt.binz and it will automatically download par files and automatically repair then automatically extract.

By: Mark’s Blog » error correction codes and checksums - repair broken downloads

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:33:25 +0000

[...] this time with data for error correction. The most popular tools are QuickPar for creating PAR/PAR2 files and ICE ECC, being a mightier and faster tool. By adding an 3-25% overhead you can not only verify [...]

By: JDonner

JDonner — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:20:34 +0000

I never use it for usenet, nobody wants to use that crap. I use it for backups on DVD, much more useful.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:56:49 +0000

Chris the Par files are only there to assure file integrity. You unpack the files normally with an unpacker of your choice.

By: Chris Knox

Chris Knox — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:26:37 +0000

Par2 Files Explained
I sort of understand the use of QuickPar but, using your example above, how do you now create the .avi file so you can view it?

By: jaima

jaima — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:57:09 +0000

i am with mewshosting.com 100 days retention and just about all my download have missing or incomplete rars, my latest download (6.80gb) had incomplete in every rar and all par2 were damaged, i had to bin the lot as i had 970 missing blocks, oh, and the files were only up 42 days.
So much for paying a premium sever when you hagve to bin about half of your downloads, a waste of time and a waste of my money.
forgot to mention when using binsearch it shows all files are there and i have 2 downloaders, Grabit and Newsleecher so i doubt that both the downloaders are faulty.

By: Wichtige Dateien gegen Korruption schützen » Ghacks.net DE

Wichtige Dateien gegen Korruption schützen » Ghacks.net DE — Fri, 18 May 2007 08:08:26 +0000

[...] nicht mehr lesbar sind. ICE ECC nutzt ein ähnliches System um Dateien wiederherzustellen wie Quick Par über das ich schon vorher berichtet [...]

By: Quick Links: 07/05/07 | Connected Internet

Quick Links: 07/05/07 | Connected Internet — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:52:02 +0000

[...] Par2 files Explained [...]

By: Protect your important files against corruption | gHacks tech news

Protect your important files against corruption | gHacks tech news — Sat, 05 May 2007 21:39:21 +0000

[...] of course but most of the time you have partial files that can be recovered. This is a like the Par2 file system which I have written about earlier in this [...]

By: Dante

Dante — Fri, 04 May 2007 01:31:24 +0000

I use the newsgroups (Usenet) extensively. And I have come to the conclusion that if someone’s RAR posts are incomplete, their PAR posts are usually off kilter too. I find that it is generally a waste of time downloading incomplete RAR files. That’s why I use the AndroidNews from http://www.sb-software.com/android/ as this program shows me if a RAR series is incomplete and I can just ignore it. Even with high speed 9mbps connection, it still take half an hour for some large programs to download. And trying to fiddle with RAR/PAR recovery afterwards is really really really annoying :(