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>>186703 No, fuck no. Drag&drop is the cancer that is killing computers.
Among some of the things that are wrong with it: - It'll extract to a temp folder, then move to the folder you dragged to - If they are not in the same drive, the "move" step will be a very time-expensive copy - The temp folder is usually in the same partition as the OS, which will need the same amount of free space too - If the files have special attributes such as read-only, when the move step comes you'll see strange confirmation prompts - The target window (the folder you are dropping to) will be locked/unresponsive until the operation completes - If there are lots of files in the archive, opening it will take a significant time of its own
There are also some other subtleties, but the short story is that drag&drop is a failure, just like you for suggesting it.
A more reasonable way to do it is dragging the .RAR file with the right mouse button to the destination folder (without opening it) and using the menu that will pop up ("extract here" or "extract to xxx"; the second one is safer). If you want to extract to the same folder the .RAR is already in, no drag is necessary, just right-click. Opening the file is never necessary.
Not only this does solve all the mentioned problems, but also avoid the registration popup (not that you shouldn't buy it anyway, but still...)
>>186715 Torrents automatically check for integrity. If you do it correctly, you can re-check the file on disk and re-download only the corrupt parts.
Anyway, if this happens to you, it's very likely that your hardware is broken. Your hard drive is failing if the file is corrupted, or your RAM if the file is OK in disk but the extraction fails.
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