[8.50b12] Refresh of a WinRAR Archive Got A Error Message

norfie² · Post by *norfie² » 2013-12-10, 09:23 UTC

Got a error message "Fehler in gepackter Datei ARCHIV.RAR" if an existing archive is updated i.e. replace or adding file with copy function "F5". Update of the archive is done fine. The error message is confusing/misleading only. The archive has a size of >1GiBytes.

Horst.Epp · Post by *Horst.Epp » 2013-12-10, 10:38 UTC

Da sollte man noch wissen, welche externe WinRAR Version du eingebunden hast, und wie ?

norfie² · Post by *norfie² » 2013-12-10, 10:46 UTC

WinRAR.exe x64 V5.01 is used.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2013-12-10, 16:54 UTC

Sounds like unrar.dll fails to open the RAR file after you modified it.

Are you able to open it after closing and re-opening TC?

norfie² · Post by *norfie² » 2013-12-10, 18:20 UTC

I suppose a race condition. The error message appears immediately with pressing F5, WinRAR updates the archive. During WinRAR updates the archive there is no archiv access possible. After the end of update all is fine again. There is no problem with smaller archives here.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2013-12-11, 15:39 UTC

I don't think that it is a race condition with WinRAR - TC waits on the process handle returned when starting WinRAR until windows signals that the process was closed. Since all file handles are closed with the process, the file handle should be closed as well.

I guess that it's a problem with a virus scanner keeping the file locked after Winrar finished. Unfortunately there is no way to find out when it releases it - this can take several minutes when scanning huge archives! Therefore I don't currently see a way to avoid this error. Any suggestions?

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2013-12-18, 17:23 UTC

Beta 13 now retries after 1 second if opening of the RAR archive failed.

norfie² · Post by *norfie² » 2013-12-19, 06:46 UTC

Today there was no error message. Thanks.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2013-12-19, 14:01 UTC

Nice to hear that! Please contact me immediately if you get this problem again.

norfie² · Post by *norfie² » 2013-12-19, 14:58 UTC

Bad news. After a reboot the error appears with beta 13 too.

norfie² · Post by *norfie² » 2013-12-20, 09:03 UTC

Today it works fine again. Nothing was changed (a reboot was done).

And it fails on the 2nd trial again. Maybe a cache issue? First trial no cache is involved, 2nd trial archive is cached ... Dunno.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2013-12-20, 17:15 UTC

Something must be locking your archives for a long time (more than a second). Maybe a slow virus scanner as a I guessed above? There is nothing I can do in that case.