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UserInterface · 2012-02-22, 04:57

I have had a look at this error and it seems to be if the rar is in compressed format. my question comes from I have only just seen this issue since going to bata 3 (didn't see it in beta 1\2 or dharma). Do i need to unpack them, cause if i say yes or no the popup just comes right back.

jmarshall · 2012-02-22, 05:39

It always says it if the rar is compressed, yes. Obviously you shouldn't be using compressed rars for movies. Stored rars are fine.

UserInterface · 2012-02-22, 05:40

jmarshall Wrote:It always says it if the rar is compressed, yes. Obviously you shouldn't be using compressed rars for movies. Stored rars are fine.

But what I am asking is why is it an issue now when it has never asked before.

jmarshall · 2012-02-22, 07:26

Did you open the same compressed rars in b1 or b2?

UserInterface · 2012-02-22, 07:35

jmarshall Wrote:Did you open the same compressed rars in b1 or b2?

Im not even watching them just scraping.

UserInterface · 2012-02-23, 05:56

Where does it unpack the files to?

jmarshall · 2012-02-23, 07:02

It unpacks to %APPDATA%/XBMC/temp IIRC

**spiff** · 2012-02-23, 11:49

yes, it didnt use to ask. it used to just go ahead and extract the file, a potentially lengthy operation, stalling the app giving the user no feedback.

Woblin · (This post was last modified: 2012-02-25, 10:19 by Woblin.)

This is really annoying since it ask me all the time in the menus to unpack big files in Eden beta 3. I can se them in rar format and I have done so since XBMC version 9. To the next beta version this should be at least optional, I can hardly use the menus in b3 as it is.

Tsunamiswe · 2012-02-25, 17:58

Is there anyone who can tell me how to get rid of this annoying question (xbmc needs to unpack a big file)? I don´t care if you think having rar-files is bad i want to have answer getting rid of this question from XBMC.

flyingrat · 2012-10-10, 14:14

I think I found the root cause. It seem the scan file/directory function has a problem cooping with rar archives that are split like this:

Code:
File.part01.rar

File.part02.rar

File.part03.rar

Instead of more commonly:

Code:
File.rar

File.r01

File.r02

File.r03