Password added later, how to restart unrar?

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Password added later, how to restart unrar?

Postby nbwul62 » Wed Feb 02, 2022 5:59 am

Downloaded all the .rars but nothing happened.
Then I noticed I forgot to add the password, added it, but what now?
Still nothing happens. How to start the unrar?

File Exit > Relaunch does not help.

Thanks!
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Re: Password added later, how to restart unrar?

Postby Quade » Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:10 pm

I'd suggest using "WinRAR" at this point. I always keep winrar and quickpar installed for these weird corner-cases.
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Re: Password added later, how to restart unrar?

Postby nbwul62 » Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:36 pm

Okay, thanks.
Done.

Just curious to know, coincidentally I have licensed WinRAR installed and somewhere I also have Quickpar.
OTOH, if a user does -not- have that...
Normally this all is being handled by NB.

I guess the only workaround then would be to redownload bypassing filters so as to trigger NB to process the files, right?
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Re: Password added later, how to restart unrar?

Postby Quade » Wed Feb 02, 2022 7:08 pm

You can trigger and unrar from the right click menu in the files list but, I'm not sure it'll offer a way to add the password. It might work.
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Re: Password added later, how to restart unrar?

Postby Tyador Borlu » Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:13 pm

If you don't have WinRAR (or don't want to install / use winRAR): I use 7zip for this scenario: it'll ask for the decrypt password, yaks when it's not the correct one and can handle (multi-volume) rar files without any fuss. (check 7zip.org - it's an open source archiver / depacker, which can handle all the usual formats).
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Re: Password added later, how to restart unrar?

Postby Quade » Sat Feb 26, 2022 9:49 pm

7zip is good too. WInRAR is the original rar unpacker so I tend to go to it. It'll unpack 7zips too.

I wasn't endorsing either one. Just suggesting you need to be ready for usenet foibles.
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