Fails to report empty file

[tsingi]

Binary package hint: gpar2

Issue: Poor user feedback reporting empty rar files.

I downloaded a large rar set (49 parts) and files 2 through 9 came in empty for some reason. The app did not report this very well. It showed all the complete sets but failed to show the empty files. (i.e. 0 of 4 chunks, or "empty par file" on a red line)

Had I been on the command line I would have caught it quickly, from nautilus, not showing file sizes, I was puzzled for a while.

I located and fixed the problem after about 5 minutes of messing around and checking my source. I'm a Linux developer, an uninformed user might very well have given up.

Error feedback on empty par files would make gpar2 more user friendly.

Using Ubuntu 9.10, gpar2 v0.3

Cheers!

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.