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You could pack the RAR parts again with no compression. This would create an archive inside an archive, but it's quite fast to decompress. You might be able to do some kind of conversion into a single archive in WinRAR itself, but I'm not sure. It it doesn't offer such feature, you need to do exactly this: repack everything.pedro22 wrote:I am seeking a way to merge these two files into one file without unpacking and repacking as a single file.
No, this is not how it works. Split archives contain a header in each file. In this case you can see this by viewing the parts in TC Lister where you'll see "Rar!" at the beginning of each part file.And I think that this option is precisely this.
Winrar offers conversions, but extracts all files and packed again. So you think the option to combine files work properly? and Total Commander does not merge these files correctly.Dalai wrote:You could pack the RAR parts again with no compression. This would create an archive inside an archive, but it's quite fast to decompress. You might be able to do some kind of conversion into a single archive in WinRAR itself, but I'm not sure. It it doesn't offer such feature, you need to do exactly this: repack everything.i
Yes, absolutely.pedro22 wrote:So you think the option to combine files work properly?
Yes, it does. It's just not a valid RAR archive anymore after doing it with a split archive. As I said, there are headers which get placed in the middle of the combined single archive, in the middle of the file stream which represent the archive contents (the packed files). In other words: you create an invalid, corruped RAR archive when using TC's Combine files function.and Total Commander does not merge these files correctly.
