Thread: Extracting Files

open up the first one in a hex editor
most file formats identify themselves at the start of the file

Ok, I did that and it just showed me a lot of squares, circles and numbers. What does that mean?

doesn't look good

you have no idea what program created these data files?

No, but they were listed as rar files from the instructions that came with them, and the instructions just said to unrar them first.

Maybe the extensions got changed/messed up in the download? Try manually changing the extension to .rar and then extracting them with 7Zip.

Can you get your hands on a *nix computer? gzip can handle lots of formats.

Usually, if you get a number extension, it was part of a package that was being downloaded that stopped halfway through, they are usually temp files. What program did you use to download them?

Try a .sit expander, Lots of programs consider them rar zips because the compression is similar, but winrar won't open them.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Can you get your hands on a *nix computer? gzip can handle lots of formats.

Usually, if you get a number extension, it was part of a package that was being downloaded that stopped halfway through, they are usually temp files. What program did you use to download them?

Try a .sit expander, Lots of programs consider them rar zips because the compression is similar, but winrar won't open them.

I used a torrent to download them, but it's alright, I got it working. The instruction manual that came with it just gave the wrong instructions, took a little messing around, but I finally got it to work somehow. Thanks guys.