Concatenation Not Working

Submitted by Sebehk on Wed, 2009-07-08 03:20
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The current version of BetterZip says it supports concatenation of split files.

Just recently downloaded a video from a newsgroup that was split into 200 files (video.wmv.001, video.wmv.002, etc.). Clicking on the first file, BetterZip opens and an error pops-up stating that the program "7z" unexpectedly quit. I then selected all 200 files and dropped them on BetterZip, but I get the same error. Using the Unix command "cat" in Terminal, I was able to merge the 200 files and the video works.

Any ideas as to what's going on?

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Submitted by Robert on Wed, 2009-07-08 09:44.

What kind of Mac do you have and which version of Mac OS X are you running? How large was the file?

Submitted by Sebehk on Wed, 2009-07-08 12:45.

My setup is a Mac Pro Quad 2.66 GHz, 8 GB RAM, running 10.5.7.

There was actually 273 split files, each about 4.65 MB. After using "cat" in Terminal, the resulting video file was 1.19 GB.

Submitted by Robert on Thu, 2009-07-09 09:08.

Nothing suspicious here. I have just tried this with 360 split files without a problem. No one else has reported this problem so far, so please, if you come across this behavior again, let me know.