FROGBOY please look into Cryogenically Preserved Precursor download...

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Well, I've been trying to download this file still and I still get the File corrupted or incomplete message. I tried using WinZip, WinRAR, and WinAce and no success. I know for sure that it's not a problem in my computer because it opened all the other files fine. I believe it's just a mistake one of the developers made when zipping the file. I get a message saying that it's incomplete or corrupted and that I need the first volume of the file in order to open that one. HELP!!!
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I used winrar and it worked, change it from .zip to .rar

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I did. Why doesn't the developer just convert it to Rar and save us all from these problems. I'm not the only person having these problem. :(
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Remember, guys, that's not one of Brad's files. The guy who uploaded it is the one who used .rar, as far as I've heard.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Jazz, anybody, can you open the file for me then and Zip it for me? my email is [email protected]. Could you please send it to me??? I appreciate the help!
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
ah, if you're smart enough to play the game, I think you should be able to figure out how to download Winrar and use it. Frankly, even if you don't use rar's very often, you should try winrar. It handles zips and is far superior to winzip.

~SDC~
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
By "far superior" you mean "aggressively anti-intuitive in certain respects."

~SDC~
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Sorry, my comment sounded bizarrely righteous. It just seemed silly that someone would ask someone else to go through the effort to download, unrar, rezip and e-mail a file, rather just get the necessary utility themselves.

Anyway, in terms of what I said about winrar, there's just a couple of feature that I find irreplaceable. Perhaps, newer versions of winzip have these abilities. I don't know.

- being able to select an arbitrary number of zip files in explorer and extract all of their contents in one step. Invaluable when you get those 100-zip archives.

- great one-step context menu (i.e. right clicking menu) that will extract all the contents into a its own child directory whose name is automatically generated based on the name of the zip/rar file. Of course, there's an "extract here" context menu item.

Because of the above things, I almost never need to open winrar, except when I want to...

- extract files from a multipart archive even if you don't have all the data yet for a particular files. For e.g., even you only have the first 35 files of a 60 part archive, you can extract as much of the mpg as is there and watch it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "anti-intuitive", but I definitely like the word :)

~SDC~