Unrar files dont show up.

[bmetmike]

Hello and thanks in advanced to anyone who can post any advice on this.
I already have unrar-free installed. I should be able to use archive manager and all seems fine when I go to extract it. I dont receive any error messages but when I click show files or navigate to the folder myself the extracted file doesnt show up.

I want to try it in terminal and ive tried multiple times to get it right but it keeps saying it cant locate the file or something along those line. I have had this problem with plenty of other files.

If you have any idea what the problem could be please let me know, any response is greatly appreciated. I've also tried xarchiver with no success. The file in question this time(other files have done the same thing) is aaf-ss.s03e07.rar so if you could tell me what I should be typing in terminal that would also help. Ive tried unrar x- aaf-ss.s03e07.rar
*also tried using unrar-free in terminal and that didnt work either
again thanks to anyone who tries to help

[bmetmike]

Heres a quick update. I've Tried using a couple different programs. 7zip gave me something strange. I right clicked the .rar file(multi-part) and selected extracted here. It seems like it works just like any other program I've tried but this time a creates a folder with the name of the rar. Its empty though. With every .rar file I have tried this has happened and I'm sure these files work because I have tested them on another computer. I could use a flash drive and bring them over to my windows machine to extract but it is a hassle and would much rather do it on my ubuntu machine. Remember I am a beginner so it could always be something little that i'm missing but it seems like im running everything properly.

[Rubberman]

I usually use the command rar x 'rarname' having installed the 'rar' package using my package manager - Synaptic in the case of Ubuntu, Yum for RedHat/Fedora. So far, after a couple of years use, I've had zero problems extracting the contents of any rar file I've had. I haven't done so well with unrar.

[bmetmike]

thanks Ill give that a shot. Used a windows computer to extract it and deleted it when I was done. Ill try it with the next rar I find. Ive tried so many rar applications though and they all have similar results. It usually seems like it extracts perfectly

[Rubberman]

Well, I use rar v3.71 from 20-Sep-2007 on a daily basis, and have had zero problems with it. It is a command-line tool. To extract a multipart archive such as "file.part01.rar", "file.part02.rar", etc. you would use the command rar x 'file.part*.rar' remember to use the single-quotes, not double-quotes, around the wild-carded string. I've used this to extract images of many gigabytes in size (like Oracle database files) that took a number of DVD's to contain all the rar files. In those cases, I use par2 files to store recovery data - usually about 10% of the total archive size, just in case one of the backup discs has a problem. That has saved my bacon on more than one occasion.