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Posted: **November 8th, 2013, 1:19 am**

Hi Everyone,

I upgraded from 0.7.11 to 0.7.16 today (on Ubuntu 12.04) and I started getting this error "unusable RAR file" that I've never seen before. Can anyone tell me what it means (other than the obvious)? Do I need to upgrade another package or am I just getting a bad nzb? If this particular nzb hadn't been grabbed by about 1000 people with no comments, I'd chalk it up to the nzb, but since no one has complained I'm not so sure.

Posted: **November 8th, 2013, 3:22 am**

You get that message "unusable RAR file" if the unrar says 'is not RAR archive'.

So: SAB depends on what unrar says. What happens when you run an manual unrar on the rar files?

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elif 'is not RAR archive' in line:
            # Unrecognizable RAR file
            m = re.search('(.+) is not RAR archive', line)
            if m:
                filename = TRANS(m.group(1)).strip()
            else:
                filename = '???'
            nzo.fail_msg = T('Unusable RAR file')
            msg = ('[%s][%s] '+ Ta('Unusable RAR file')) % (setname, latin1(filename))
            nzo.set_unpack_info('Unpack', unicoder(msg), set=setname)
            fail = 1

Posted: **November 8th, 2013, 1:00 pm**

I did not still have the original files from the previous failed attempts, so I re-downloaded it this morning. Instead of setting it to process to SB, I just downloaded it normally. Both 7-zip on a Windows machine and rar on the Ubuntu host were able to unpack the file successfully with no errors.

Odd thing: today's successful download and yesterday's three failed downloads all show they were missing 24 articles. No way of telling which 24, but I'm going to presume they were the same.

I'm going to try downloading again with process to SB on this time and see if the error returns. Perhaps I've got something screwed up in the update, although this install has worked without error for about 2 years now.

Thanks for your help!

Posted: **November 8th, 2013, 2:11 pm**

So, I re-downloaded the same NZB that worked fine 15 minutes before, but this time set it to process with the SB scripts...

Got the "unusable RAR file" error again.

I went to the incomplete directory for the nzb and some of it appears to be unpacked/unrar'ed properly (i.e., the sample, an nfo, etc.) but the main file is not. Nor do the rar parts left in the incomplete directory add up to enough to the main file.

I've compared the complete directory version vs. the incomplete directory version and it looks like for some reason, when running the SB script, the SAB (or the script) is junk rar parts. For example, in the complete directory I have rar files that look like this:

16555.r00
16555.r01
etc
blahblah1106.r00
blahblah1106.r01
etc.

In the incomplete directory, all the "blahblah" named files are missing. Naturally, these are the ones that contain the main file I'm interested in.

I'm guessing since there are apparently 2 separate RARs in the nzb (16555.rar and blahblah1106.rar, ultimately) that some confusion is occurring when unpacking. I'm just not sure where. As far as I know, all of the unpacking/unrar'ing is done by SABnzbd and the SB script just gets called to move the final file(s) over. This has me confused since SABnzbd seems to process the nzb fine when it's not expecting to send it to SB.

Posted: **December 23rd, 2013, 4:48 pm**

I got the same error a while back. You can manually unrar the files with the latest WinRAR release. I guess they slightly changed the way it is done.

Posted: **December 23rd, 2013, 5:24 pm**

stomp wrote:I got the same error a while back. You can manually unrar the files with the latest WinRAR release. I guess they slightly changed the way it is done.

Which SAB version?
Can you PM a link to such a NZB?

Posted: **December 27th, 2013, 3:51 pm**

I believe this is due to some groups using WinRar 5.0.

Posted: **January 12th, 2014, 2:06 pm**

It looks like unrar will need to be updated or something. This is becoming more and more of a problem.

Posted: **January 13th, 2014, 6:38 am**

Will be in next release.

Posted: **January 22nd, 2014, 8:39 am**

HI

This is down to winrar 5 being used, had this issue today and manually unzipping works fine.

Any idea when the next release is due ?

cheers

Posted: **February 5th, 2014, 3:50 am**

Hi the Problem "unusable rarfile" is easy to solve

just download here the file for your for your system http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
i'm using windows so i take unrar for windows
after unpacking the the unrarw32.exe take the unrar.exe file and copy it to the "programfilesx68/sabnzb/win/unrar"folder
i've copied the file to both, directly to win and also to the x64 folder
and sabnzb unrars the unusable rarfiles without an error

Posted: **February 5th, 2014, 3:53 am**

I installed 0.7.17RC1 which solved my problem..... thanks anyway as I am sure that will work as well.

Posted: **March 2nd, 2014, 12:59 pm**

i downloaded the rar 5.01 package for mac os x, but where do i put it/how do i install it?

Posted: **March 3rd, 2014, 4:19 pm**

Look where it's installed within the folder /Applications/SABnzbd and replace file unrar

Posted: **June 21st, 2014, 2:58 pm**

for Linux: update your Unrar
follow directions and it works!....

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/vi ... unrar.html

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