If any parts are missing or corrupted, the extraction process will fail with an error message.

Tools such as 7-Zip or WinRAR are typically used to open these files. Usually, opening the first part will automatically trigger the software to look for the remaining segments to reconstruct the original file.

To extract the contents of a multi-part archive, the following conditions usually must be met:

This is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error recovery, and file spanning.