WinRAR corrupted my files

[Ponzooon]

Winrar seems to have corrupted some encrypted files. They just seem to be completely gone after an error message showed up telling me that they are corrupted!

I tried WinRar's repair tool and it did nothing.

Is it possible to fix this?

 

[HEXiT]

winrar shouldnt corrupt any file if its working correctly.
are you sure you havent tried to give winrar a file compressed with a format that winrar can't handle?

is it a multi part rar? (use hjsplit to split or join multi part archives)

what was the original file extension?

 

[Ponzooon]

It's just some text files. Surely it can handle .txt!

 

[HEXiT]

.txt is a basic text file... winrar cant decompress them as there not compressed to start with.
right click on the text file and select open with and select notepad. it should now open in notpad without issue.

to compress a txt file right click on its icon and click add to archive.

 

[Ponzooon]

That's what I did in the first place to encrypt it! The file is gone! All that's left is the error message telling me that it is corrupt! I can't open it or even see it!

 

[rgd1101]

That's what I did in the first place to encrypt it! The file is gone! All that's left is the error message telling me that it is corrupt! I can't open it or even see it!

That not encrypt, that compress.
When you compress, it should leave the original unless the original is corrupt.
do check disk health

 

[Ponzooon]

That's what I did in the first place to encrypt it! The file is gone! All that's left is the error message telling me that it is corrupt! I can't open it or even see it!

That not encrypt, that compress.
When you compress, it should leave the original unless the original is corrupt.
do check disk health

It did leave the original which I deleted. I was able to open the txt file for a while with a password. Only now is it saying it is corrupted.
Did it just add a password without encrypting it?

 

[HEXiT]

no mate. it wont add a password by itself... you have to specifically add 1.
have you checked your recycler... if you havent emptied it the file you deleted should be in there... just restore it if you can.

 

[rgd1101]

So you did compress and password protected. Still sound like a HDD or SSD issue.

 

[Ponzooon]

I didn't say it did it by itself. I set the password. I was asking if this doesn't necessarily mean it was encrypted.

Yes, The recycler was the first thing I checked.

I highly doubt it was my SSD. I haven't had a single issue since I got it. It's just this one thing corrupting after I used winrar on it.

So is there any way to restore the file? Or has winrar effectively deleted it?

 

[rgd1101]

If you set a password, then yes it encrypted.
So just 1 text file? could be anything. Sound like you were able to open it once. So it not winrar.
And no. A corrupted encrypted compressed file is hard to recover. winrar didn't deleted it, you deleted the original and didn't have a backup.

Next time do backup your file.

 

[HEXiT]

if you misspell your password winrar will tell you the file is corrupt.