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probelm with a span set rar

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by starski_n_hutch

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I recently downloaded a span set (a file where you open the first of the one & then it prompts you to open the next) .rar file. It was about 95mb large.

My problem is that I only wanted one part of this span set (the last part), so I went ahead and downloaded part 7 of the set or something like that. And I knew when I tried to extract it, it would prompt me like open the part 1 first. And I obviously want to conserve time by only downloading part 7 instead of having to waste time downloading part 1, then part 2 etc (which I already have because I downloaded them off another site, which conviently did not have the last file of the set so this is why I am in this problem).

So my question is: "Is there a program which can open this file without having all the other parts or is there a method I could use to remove the span set function on the .rar file?" Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers :)

PS- I am using PowerArchiver to extract the files
And the files are for a DVD I want to compile.

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by daveo2000

so I doubt you would have much luck with only one. But, of course, you can give it the old college try. ;)

Normally these things are created sequentially and each file specifies how many bytes to skip for the next one. You could get lucky, though, and have a byte count at the beginning of each file that says how much to skip for that file.

If there is a directory at the beginning of the whole thing that allows you to skip directly to the 7th file you will need to make sure that you have the files from the same generated set. But, I am sure that you knew that... :)

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