A PAR file would allow the complete archive to be reconstructed if one of the files became corrupt. PAR files can also be used to verify the integrity of the complete archive. See Usenet.

You'll have to grab their respective apps to use the files. SmartPAR works for .par files, and I believe .r00 files are part of a .rar archive, so you'll need a program like WinRAR. Quote Report B ...

ideally we would use a Python script to check Par_files and convert them to the new format, i.e. some kind of human-machine interface however in practice that has always failed (Jeroen and I had a ...

IsoBuster (or any other bad disc saver like Badcopy) to extract the most from my disc, with of course some files missing and some files partially missing. I only hope not all PAR2 files are missing.

I look around to see how to use the par files and see that I can use SmartPar to fix a broken part. <br><br>Now I SWEAR that when I ran SmartPar for the first time it verified a corrupt part17 ...

Hi, Yes, in your DATA/Par_file just replace the existing Q0 = 1 # quality factor for viscous attenuation freq0 = 10 # frequency for viscous attenuation with: Q0_poroelastic = 1 # quality factor for ...