Hi Steven, Guys, On Tuesday 26 November 2019 23:48:41 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 09:51:51PM +0000, Baron wrote: > > The output from "file" is, > > > > "RAR archive data, v0, flags: Locked, Authenticated," > > > > Which doesn't help me a lot I'm afraid. > > My guess is that this means that your RAR file is password > protected and your unrar utility doesn't know how to deal with it, > but that's a guess because I'm busy and don't have time to research > it for you. But I seem to vaguely remember having this same problem > in the past, which I ended up solving by running the unrar utility > from the command line rather than through KDE's Extract menu. > > But that was years ago and I might be confabulating the whole > episode. > > You could start some more research here: > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rar+locked+authenticated Problem solved ! Apparently Windows RAR allows setting locks and passwords via a file that is used by RAR when creating an archive. Unrar 5.8 now works fine. I didn't realise that the new version was not in the path, and I was still trying to use the old one. The RAR file format was changed quite recently and the old versions cannot understand the 5 version format. The new 5.8 installs in "/usr/local" which oddly has "root, staff" rights, rather than "root,root" which I expected. It seems that I'm not a member of that group. Thanks everybody for your help, its much appreciated. -- Best Regards: Baron --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
