RAR plugin doesn't recognice 001, 002, 003 files

[Dennis]

The RAR plugin as provided with the latest beta release doesn't recognize the 001, 002, 003 rar format. (Although this was mentioned in the release notes).

The plugin itself is loaded correctly and available to the system. Tests of the plugin showed no problems. Version check shows it is a 2010 beta 1 version.

[therube]

Are any of the files named name.rar in the series?
So name.rar, name.r01, name.r02, ...

Oh I see. I think it is a mistype:

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# Added support for multi-part archives with naming .001, .002, 003, etc.

It should be:

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# Added support for multi-part archives with naming .rar .r00, .r01, r02, etc.

The current default method is to name the files:
name.part1.rar, name.part2.rar, name.part3.rar ...

Using (the command line) -vn parameter returns to using the old method:
name.rar, name.r00, name.r01, name.r02 ...

Both of those methods work.

If it is simply .001 .002 .003 (with no .rar at all) it is simply ambiguous.
Plus the numerical portion still needs an 'r' in there.
Further the numerical portion is zero based.
So you must have at least 1 name.rar, followed by name.r00, then name.r01 ...

[Dennis]

Support for part1.rar as well as .r01 has been in the plugin since at least 2.50.

The scheme of .001, .002 and so on is also valid and is supported by the 7-Zip, WINRAR and HJSPLIT program. Technically those files are not an archive but a filesplitter has been used to split a larger file (in my case a RAR file).

So you got this large RAR file which you splitup in smaller chunks. To extract those you have to join them and then extract the archive.

[Raptor]

001, 002, ... works fine for me. You can browse archive, you can use Alt+F9 to unpack. I think there is no problem.

[Jan Patera]

x.001, x.002, x.003 are valid RAR arhives just like x.r01, x.r02, x.r03 would be. I.e. it is not that a large file is split. In the pre-2.53b1 versions, working with them was not as comfortable as with other naming schemes for multi-volume RAR archives (the 1st archive in the sequence was not recognized automatically). That's the change mentioned in the release notes.
However, you are bumping into a slightly different issue that was indeed not addressed in 2.53b1: These extensions are not associated to the unRAR plugin, and this indeed for their ambiguity. You can associate them manually: Go to Configuration/Archivers/Archives Association in Panels and change "rar;r##" to "rar;r##;###".