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Better handling of incorrect RAR password (2.0b1) #170

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
When I supply an incorrect password for a RAR archive, The Unarchiver (2.0b1) 
reports "Could not 
extract the file "file": Error on decrunching" and lets me continue for each 
file in the archive (which 
is created with garbage).

Can an incorrect password be handled more gracefully (i.e. by prompting for the 
password again)?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sid...@s4y.us on 14 Jul 2009 at 4:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The RAR format is badly designed, and doesn't provide a mechanism for checking 
if a password is correct. The 
Unarchiver tries to make some intelligent guesses to report a useful error, but 
this is not entirely reliable.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2009 at 10:54