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I'm using the standard UNRAR 3.90 beta 2 freeware from ubuntu lucid 10.04.

When downloading (using jdownloader or firefox) the chunks that make up a rar archive, the files sometimes have an additional extension .part to indicate that they're not yet fully downloaded, i.e.

  • foo.part1.rar [fully downloaded]
  • foo.part2.rar.part [partially downloaded]

When executing unrar foo.part1.rar, unrar doesn't find foo.part2.rar.part because of the additional .part suffix. Is there any option that would allow it to do so?

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Why would you want to open a partly downloaded rar archive (which would most likely seem broken to the unpacker anyway)?! – Bobby Nov 2 '10 at 11:16
@Ignacio: unrar foo.part1.rar foo.part2.rar.part doesn't apparently work. Is there a way of specifying the complete list of archive chunks to use rather than unrar detecting them automatically from the stem of the first part? – James Leifer Nov 2 '10 at 11:24
@Bobby: with the -kb option, you can unrar a partial download to inspect some of the contents without waiting for all archive chunks to download. This is highly useful given that the complete download may take several hours. – James Leifer Nov 2 '10 at 11:30
Interesting, didn't know that such an option exists. – Bobby Nov 2 '10 at 11:42
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A crude workaround would be to copy the downloaded & yet-to-be-fully-downloaded files to another directory and rename the partially downloaded one.

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