A
Al Smith
I just got finished updating my RAR peeking and decompressing
abilities in Power Desk 5, and thought I'd share the information I
discovered by trial and error with this group.
Power Desk 5 handles older RAR archives, displaying them as file
folders, and decompressing them (you can drag an individual file
in an RAR archive out to another directory, for example, and it
will decompress) -- however, when the RAR format was changed a
year or so ago, Power Desk 5 stopped being able to see into the
newer RAR archives.
The fix is this:
Download UnRAR.dll (which actually comes packaged in an EXE file
named unrardll.exe) and install the program. Forget all about it,
you don't need it and will delete it later. Take only the file
"unrar.dll" that is in the program folder of the created program.
Rename this to "pdunrar.dll" and drop it into the "Program
Files\Ontrack\Power Desk" folder. It will replace the existing,
but much smaller and older, file also named "pdunrar.dll" -- or,
if you wish to be able to go back to what you had, first rename
the original Power Desk file to something such as
"pdunrar.dll.old" and then drop the newer "pdunrar.dll" into the
Power Desk folder.
That's all there is to it. Delete the program that installed
itself when you ran "unrardll.exe". Power Desk will now be able to
peek into the more recent RAR archives.
abilities in Power Desk 5, and thought I'd share the information I
discovered by trial and error with this group.
Power Desk 5 handles older RAR archives, displaying them as file
folders, and decompressing them (you can drag an individual file
in an RAR archive out to another directory, for example, and it
will decompress) -- however, when the RAR format was changed a
year or so ago, Power Desk 5 stopped being able to see into the
newer RAR archives.
The fix is this:
Download UnRAR.dll (which actually comes packaged in an EXE file
named unrardll.exe) and install the program. Forget all about it,
you don't need it and will delete it later. Take only the file
"unrar.dll" that is in the program folder of the created program.
Rename this to "pdunrar.dll" and drop it into the "Program
Files\Ontrack\Power Desk" folder. It will replace the existing,
but much smaller and older, file also named "pdunrar.dll" -- or,
if you wish to be able to go back to what you had, first rename
the original Power Desk file to something such as
"pdunrar.dll.old" and then drop the newer "pdunrar.dll" into the
Power Desk folder.
That's all there is to it. Delete the program that installed
itself when you ran "unrardll.exe". Power Desk will now be able to
peek into the more recent RAR archives.
PD5 is great.