?winrar 'unexpected End Of Archive'.

WinRar "Unexpected end of archive".When trying to extract files from RAR archive, I come across error message stating, "Unexpected end of archive". What's wrong? How to extract them?

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Answer #1: Posted by SaraivaPetronio0 on May 30th, 2016 4:55 PM

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There are few reasons for getting unexpected end of archive RAR error; you usually encounter this error when you start a downloading process and after downloading few GBs (gigabytes) or MBs (megabytes), it stops and displays a message as download complete. https://discuss.howtogeek.com/t/winrar-crc-is-wrong/28443

Answer #2: Posted by TheWiz on May 30th, 2016 5:54 AM

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Try following the instructions here.

Answer #3: Posted by waelsaidani1 on May 30th, 2016 6:05 AM

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Given below are the steps which might help you in recovering some files from your corrupted RAR archive:

Step 1: Run WinRAR program and browse to the drive or folder where your corrupt RAR file is present
Step 2: Select the RAR file and click on "Repair" button from the tool bar
Step 3: A window pops-up choose, "Treat corrupt archive as RAR" option
Step 4: In case if you get a "Suspicious Entry" popping up, then select All, you may encounter this message several times while the repair process
Step 5: After completion of the repair process, click on close
Step 6: To extract your files, select your new rebuilt archive
Step 7: Next, choose commands->Extract without confirmation, the files start to get extracted