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levic92
Archive containing archive which overwrites other archive
I've come upon a pretty annoying edge-case where a torrent contains two archives.
The first archive is an archive with the subtitles and a nested archive within itself.
The second archive is an archive of the movie.
Because unrar is run with -o+ the movie archive gets overwritten resulting in the movie being lost.
Best illustrated like this:
- ubuntu-subs.rar
- ubuntu.srt
- ubuntu.rar
- ubuntu.rar
- ubuntu.mkv
- ubuntu.r00
- ubuntu.r01
...
The big question is why would someone do it like this and i don't really have an answer to that but it has happened to me enough times to be a problem.
One way to resolve this would be to run unrar with the -or flag which renames files that would otherwise overwrite another file. In the above example ubuntu.rar would become ubuntu (1).rar
As for the other commands i haven't really looked into alternatives to rename instead of overwrite.
That is strange that someone would create an archive like that. I haven't run into any torrents that do this yet. Thank you for reporting the issue, I will look into it when I have some extra time
Yeah, really strange and really annoying. Took me a while to understand why half of my downloads failed. Apparently a lot of torrents on torrentleech are like that...
In the meantime i've been running my fix without any issues from here https://github.com/lisinge/LCExtractor/commit/cf8243041fdbd890c4a40a9e7bd39c4feb8ccd0d. It's only fixed for rars though.
I hit this problem as well today. I had to disable the plugin, recheck+download and manually extract as a workaround. Will try micke's fix now. I can provide an example torrent if contacted privately on gitter. Running on linux
I'm seeing this as well. It's extremely frustrating. I'll try micke's fix as well until we see something from @levic92 (great plugin, by the way!)
