permissions problem?

If I leave the destination unspecified when using unrar on the command line I assume it will unrar to the current directory, correct?

I tried the unrar command with sudo prefix and same problem -- creates small .avi directory instead of 350MB .avi file

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larry@larry-desktop:~/Videos/Lost.S05E15.HDTV.XviD-NoTV$ sudo unrar-free -x lost.0515.hdtv.xvid-notv.part01.rar
[sudo] password for larry:

unrar 0.0.1 Copyright (C) 2004 Ben Asselstine, Jeroen Dekkers

Extracting from /home/larry/Videos/Lost.S05E15.HDTV.XviD-NoTV/lost.0515.hdtv.xvid-notv.part01.rar

All OK
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Why do you use the Terminal there is a special software for that, open add/remove and search for RAR , check the Xarchiver software and install it , after , go to your video files , right click on the first part, choose Xarchiver , if you don't find it click on Open with other application and choose it (you can type X for easy search). click ok , then after opening the file (all the other files are automatically read because there is many parts as you said ). By a right click Choose Extract to ... and wait !! report me anything whether there is an error.

I installed Xarchiver and ran it on the file. Same problem -- it creates a small 4096 byte folder called

lost.0515.hdtv.xvid-notv.avi

with nothing inside of it.

larry@larry-desktop:~/Videos/Lost.S05E15.HDTV.XviD-NoTV$ ls -l
total 359244
drwxrwxrwx 2 larry larry 4096 2009-05-07 02:30 lost.0515.hdtv.xvid-notv.avi
-rw-rw-rw- 1 larry larry 9249 2009-05-06 21:20 lost.0515.hdtv.xvid-notv.nfo
-rw-rw-rw- 1 larry larry 15000000 2009-05-06 21:29 lost.0515.hdtv.xvid-notv.part01.rar
-rw-rw-rw- 1 larry larry 15000000 2009-05-06 21:29 lost.0515.hdtv.xvid-notv.part02.rar
-rw-rw-rw- 1 larry larry 15000000 2009-05-06 21:29 lost.0515.hdtv.xvid-notv.part03.rar
-rw-rw-rw- 1 larry larry 15000000 2009-05-06 21:29 lost.0515.hdtv.xvid-notv.part04.rar
.
.
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I installed Xarchiver using Synaptic Package Manager and ran Applications > Accessories > Xarchiver

Archive > Open (i then selected rar file with "part01" in the name)

Action > Extract (with options checked for for Files:Selected Files and Options:Overwrite Existing Files)

After that it creates the directory without any other files.

I installed Xarchiver using Synaptic Package Manager and ran Applications > Accessories > Xarchiver

Archive > Open (i then selected rar file with "part01" in the name)

Action > Extract (with options checked for for Files:Selected Files and Options:Overwrite Existing Files)

After that it creates the directory without any other files.

xarchiver does not report an error, but it does not produce the expected .avi file.

Just like when I run unrar from he command line, it says everything ok, but only a directory is created.

OK , go to the folder where are your files , press Ctrl+H , in order to show hidden files , if there is no hidden files , then right click on the folder and then go to Properties->Permissions:

Configure the folder this way:

Owner: "<Your user name>"
=>Folder access: "Create and delete folders"
=>File access:"Read and Write" (it may show you : --- , so this is not a problem)

.. then click on "Apply Permissions to Enclosed files" , Click after OK .

and retry (don't forget the space you have on the partition)

I right-clicked on the rar file with "part01" in the filename

lost.0515.hdtv.xvid-notv.part01.rar

and selected Properties and then the Permissions tab

it shows

owner: larry
read and write

group: larry
read and write

others:
read and write

not sure about the ctrl-H to show hidden files, i am using an old mac usb keyboard on this machine and I forget witch is CTRL (option or apple?) sorry, lol, I will reboot with new kybd

ok now , check the free space by running System->Administration->System monitor->File system

check the space of /dev/sda1
....

System Monitor > File Systems

dev/sda1 / 6.1 GiB Available (30% Used)
dev/sda3 /data 204.1 GiB Available (0% Used)

thanks a bunch, btw :)

OK , the problem is to be solved

you are using Xarchiver in this dir: /home/<Username>/Videos

While you have 14.9 Gb free ,,, you have 200Gb of videos , how want you extract that in this little partition.

You have to unpack in another location ; reopen Xarchiver then go to action , extract , but now change the location in the extract tab, cand choose media 204.1GiB. and click OK

The mulit-part rar I am selecting should only produce a 350 MB file. I have tried un-raring to another folder.

I suspect something with groups/users because of the way my homer system was installed. I moved the files to larry and am working there now.

Same problem on both systems. Same problem with all of the multi-part rars I have moved to homer or recently downloaded.

You may have a little problem with the 204.1GiB partition .
1- Open terminal
2- type gksudo nautilus
3- type your password
4- go to /media/sda1/
5- right click on that folder and choose properties
6- in the permission tab, make the permission like in the following picture:

7- (to get --- , you must choose read and write)
8- quit nautilus
9- type sudo umount sda3
10- type the password
11- type sudo mount sda3
you must now be able to add files and create folder by right clicking inside the 204 Gib partition. If not , restart the PC , and do what I told you latly with Xarchiver

You may have a little problem with the 204.1GiB partition .
1- Open terminal
2- type gksudo nautilus
3- type your password
4- go to /media/sda1/
5- right click on that folder and choose properties
6- in the permission tab, make the permission like in the following picture:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6711/16457404.png
7- (to get --- , you must choose read and write)
8- quit nautilus
9- type sudo umount sda3
10- type the password
11- type sudo mount sda3
you must now be able to add files and create folder by right clicking inside the 204 Gib partition. If not , restart the PC , and do what I told you latly with Xarchiver

I get to step 4,
navigate to File System > media
and see only cdrom and cdrom0, /sda1/ is not shown

CTRl-H in the media folder reveals a hidden file called ".hal-mtab" (dunno if that is important)

back in terminal window I got a msg from Nautilus..

** (nautilus:4024): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not supported
e' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory

step 4: I mean sda3 , sorry

I navigate to File System > media and see only cdrom and cdrom0, /sda3/ is not shown

more messages in terminal window:

Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

(nautilus:4024): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Missing callback called fullpath = /root/.config/user-dirs.dirs

I also tried copying the Lost.S05E15 forlder from Videos to /data and get an error..

The folder "Lost.S05E15.HDTV.XviD-NoTV" cannot be copied because you do not have permissions to create it in the destination.

what is the mount point you have choosen for the 204.1GIb partition

I believe it is /data. I don't understand mount points much at all. Is there a command that shows it?

go to /data instead of /media/sda3 in the 4th step and continue the other steps

I noticed the owner for /data was root, I changed it to larry and was able to copy files from ~/Video to /data
was not able to do this before, so progress, yay!

I quit nautilus and tried step 9. umount command and got

larry@larry-desktop:~$ sudo umount sda3
[sudo] password for larry:
umount: sda3: not found

I will have to come back to this later. Thanks for getting me this far.

ok ; when you read , step 9 , instead of sudo umount sda3 , type ; sudo umount /data
and same for step 10; type sudo mount /data

okay, I tried umount /data and mount /data, then unrar, still having the same problem

I think that the archive is broken !!! Waiting for another one to help ; sorry !!