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I've made a lot of archives (rar, 7z, etc.) in my time and I've always ticked off "test" just because it seemed like a good idea and doesn't take too long, and I've continued doing this despite never having actually caught a mistake... until just now.  So it can happen xD I guess I wasn't being silly to use it all those years - you never know when it might just come in handy!

  1. Murasaki

    Murasaki

    Unfortunate but fortunate. 

  2. vanished

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    It raises the question, what happens when extracting?  Does it always do a test?  Or never?  Is there even a way to choose?

    Looking in the settings I don't see a way to choose.  I believe it does test, but I'm not certain.

    I feel like it should just be forced on for both extracting and creation.

  3. Murasaki

    Murasaki

    Surely it checks integrity before performing any extraction operations. That's how you would get any errors if something is amiss. For creation who knows really. I've never really even thought about it. 

  4. vanished

    vanished

    I have seen extracts fail before so I believe it does do some kind of check.  Whether that's on the integrity of the archive before starting, or on the extracted file to see if it matches what was in the archive, or both, or neither, I couldn't say though.

  5. Murasaki

    Murasaki

    Source code exploration time? ?

  6. vanished

    vanished

    I love how that matches your pfp lol

  7. vanished

    vanished

    There's more to this story actually.  For one, I had several compressions running at once and the whole batch of them had issues.  No idea why.  Not a big deal though, I can just run them again... or so I would have thought.  The second part of this is one of the compressions actually did finish without errors, but because I was suspicious at this point, I made it run the test a second time, and sure enough it found a corrupted file in the archive.  This is extremely confusing and concerning to me.  For one thing, it tells me I can't trust any archive because just passing the test once is apparently not good enough to know for sure that it's valid, and second, how is it possible that the test results can be inconsistent?

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