Yesterday I backed up all of my personal files to an external hard drive and reinstalled windows. One of the files that I backed up was a password protected RAR archive. I know the password but when I try to open the file from the file explorer I get an error that states "Cannot open (file path)". When I open in from winrar I get "Cannot Open (file name)". I tried to repair this file and it gave me "! Cannot open (file path)! Access is denied." I have two copies because the file was backed up on the external drive and the windows install preserved the old file in the Windows.Old folder so I doubt that the file is corrupt. I checked the permissions on the file and changed the owner to the administrator on the new machine and gave myself full control. I tried accessing it on another machine and changing the owner/permissions there. All attempts at opening the file point to an access problem and I can't go back to the original computer because it has been blown away. What am I missing? Is there a linux solution that will open with a correct password regardless of permissions?
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