[Imustaskforhelp]

Kudos, this is a really cool project (even if it might be AI generated), I have starred the repo, (3rd starrer here)

One thing I have been curious at is are there any ways to stop a rar compression mid way and then continue it later?

Like suppose I have a compression happening for a large file, then would there be a possibility with this project to shut down the computer mid compression and continue it after starting it again?

I would really love it if you can add this functionality!

[davidsong]

Thanks!

I guess you could save the state to a file on SIGINT, flush what's been written and pick it back up again if the state file exists when you restart, and use the CRCs of the files to abort if things have changed. I don't fancy doing that for so many versions of RAR, but it would be a cool feature to add it to an `xz` fork. I like the idea.

[Imustaskforhelp]

Thanks it would still be interesting to see this added to xz but supposing the fact that LLM's were able to create the rars project, I suppose it might not be that difficult to add that to rar format eventually. Starting to do it from xz might make the most sense if you like the idea right though.

Another idea for rar format that I have which I would love to hear your opinion on is that there are sometimes multiple .part01 .part02 .part03 and so on

I have found that when you try to unrar it, it requires all the files at the particular.

It would be really beneficial imo if it was possible to have the ability if there was some ability to somehow just unrar .part01 without requiring all the contents of .part02,03 etc.

but from my very limited understanding, you also need some (I think last contents) of all files for the de-compression to work.

Would it be possible to do something of this endeavour so that you don't require all the parts themselves but just something of a patch of an end, I am not sure about compression algorithms if that might be possible though but it felt like something which was a bit possible albeit hard/difficult to do with rar format.

I would be curious to hear your opinions on it, and thanks for responding and I would be really interested in seeing the xz fork that you mentioned!