How to fix failed CRC file?

[Mario Hoerich]

# T.F. Cheng:
> Hi, I have downloaded some multimedia files from a
> news server, and they are usually coming in rar format
> and lots of pieces. I use par2repair to fix them, but
> one of the files failed, and reported to be CRC
> failed. Can anybody tell me how to fix this? thanks!!

Basically, redownload the broken file. It might save you
some time to get an md5-sum of the server's file first,
in case it's already broken there.

FWIW, you could also try unraring with the kb-switch, but
I doubt unrar can handle a CRC-error.

Regards,
Mario
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