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unrar-free fails for multi-volume files but unrar doesn't

unrar-free fails for multi-volume file but unrar doesn't. Output for both:

$ unrar-free archive-2873.part1.rar /tmp

unrar-free 0.3.1  Copyright (C) 2004  Ben Asselstine, Jeroen Dekkers


Extracting from /data2/archive-2873.part1.rar

unrar-free: Truncated RAR file dataExtracting  Y                                                    Failed
unrar-free: Bad RAR file1 Failed

$
$
$ unrar x archive-2873.part1.rar /tmp

UNRAR 7.01 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2024 Alexander Roshal


Extracting from archive-2873.part1.rar

Extracting  /tmp/archive-2843.mp4            33%

Extracting from archive-2873.part2.rar

...         archive-2843.mp4                                  67%

Extracting from archive-2873.part3.rar

...         archive-2843.mp4                                  OK
All OK

I typically use unrar-free and in the past I have similar issues with some other files until I realized they weren't corrupted and unrar handled those multi-volume files fine.

Let me know if I should provide additional info.

Edited by george