by the sounds of it the archive file is corrupted, try get the sender
to re archive it and then send it again... HOWEVER....
note that if they are sending JPG's it's usually best just to send
each JPG file "as is" because, as a general rule, you rarely achieve
much notable compression by archiving JPGs anyway. Often I find
that the archives overheads actually increases the file size
Hello all --
-- Thanks for the useful advice as below. Unfortunately nothing
worked. Both MacRAR and MacUnRAR said 'file header broken', latest
(Classic) version of Stuffit Expander found 'Broken Header' in file.
MacRAR made a sort of pseudo-folder which showed the names and sizes
of 4 JPG files the archive contained, but these weren't real files
which could be found or worked on.
-- Unless anyone has any more ideas, I'd better get back to the
sender of the original files and ask him to re-send the files in
another format. Thanks anyway --
David Noel / 2005 Feb 21
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Can anyone tell me how to open a 5.4 Mb .rar photo file I've
received? No luck with Stuffit Expander, Photoshop etc. TIA.
David Noel / 2005 Feb 21
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:30:14 +0800
From: Mark Secker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Opening a .rar file with iMac, 9.1
check that your version of stuffit is up to date. if still having
problems with latest OS 9 version of stuffit then try one of the
products listed here
<http://www.versiontracker.com/php/search.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=rar&plt%5B%5D=macos&x=15&y=8>
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Make sure you've got the latest version of Stuffit Expander, it
should uncompress .rar files. I'm not sure if the last version for
System 9.1 will though.
<http://www.allume.com/>
Have fun,
Shay
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Subject:
Re: Opening a .rar file with iMac, 9.1
Date:
Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:03:51 +0800
From:
Rob Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Afternoon,
MacRAR / MacUnRAR; Available from usual outlets. Stuffit gone Classic
sort of works???
HTH
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