7-Zip v WinRaR

Teki187 · 18 Jan 2009 at 06:56

I have both, when i try and open .rar or .01 .02 etc files sometimes z-zip complains about the file being broke etc, but yet with winrar it works fine.

Anyone know if i'm doing something wrong?

Ratbag · 18 Jan 2009 at 08:04

I had the same problem with 7zip throwing up random errors that didn't occur with Winrar or Winzip. So I ditched it.

bledd · 18 Jan 2009 at 10:13

usually files that you have problems with are from an illegal source anyway

7zip is updated pretty often, and the newer releases tend to fix issues like this, try a newer release

Daegan · 18 Jan 2009 at 10:26

I get that occasionally too, with the latest version.

No hardship tho, if it happens I just use WinRaR. Doesn't stop me using 7-Zip as my main compression utility.

jbloggs · 18 Jan 2009 at 11:37

There are other free utilities that deal with .RARs, ie. ALZip etc, see "Compression/Decompression" section in link in my sig for more of them.

eXor · 18 Jan 2009 at 11:46

Teki187 said:
I have both, when i try and open .rar or .01 .02 etc files sometimes z-zip complains about the file being broken

N00b.

If you have .01, .02, .nn, you unrar the .rar. If you have xxx.rar, you unrar the first one.

I use 7-zip exclusively and I've never had it fail on an uncorrupted archive.

Teki187 · 18 Jan 2009 at 14:35

eXor said:
N00b.

If you have .01, .02, .nn, you unrar the .rar. If you have xxx.rar, you unrar the first one.

I use 7-zip exclusively and I've never had it fail on an uncorrupted archive.

Well put it this way, the archive isnt corrupt since winrar can unrar it, but 7zip says there is an error.

That to me says 7zip is faulty in that respect.

Kennysevenfold · 18 Jan 2009 at 14:36

winrar ***

Aod · 18 Jan 2009 at 14:59

other than 7zip throwing up the VERY occasional error decompressing illegally obtained multipart archives (usually .r01 .r02 .r03 etc...) it's perfect! and the shell integration is excellent.

Final8y · 18 Jan 2009 at 15:10

jbloggs said:
There are other free utilities that deal with .RARs, ie. ALZip etc, see "Compression/Decompression" section in link in my sig for more of them.

ALZip will become Payfor in the future that's why i have switched to IZarc.

jbloggs · 18 Jan 2009 at 15:54

Final8y said:
ALZip will become Payfor in the future that's why i have switched to IZarc.

Thanks for pointing this out to me!

The link in the Useful Freeware Utilities thread has now been changed to a pre 1st December 2008 version, which also deals with .RARs...there are also other utilities in the list that deal with .RARs.

Mobius 1 · 18 Jan 2009 at 15:56

i use peazip and it works alright

F2kSel · 18 Jan 2009 at 16:32

I get quite a few errors with 7-Zip but the fix for me is to use the "Copy To" option, it still says there's an error but unpacks the file anyway.
I haven't had to install anything else to unpack files in over a year so I'll carry on using it.