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Hey everyone,

I've tried everything to open a download I did yesterday, its a folder of RAR files, I think they are ebooks, thats what it says on the site I downloaded them from, but it could be small videos. I extracted the RAR and it came up with a BIN and a CUE file, now I don't know what to do next. It told me to burn them onto a disc, did that, still nothing...does anyone have any ideas on what I can do? I'm using Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

PS the other RAR file names are R01, R02, R03 up to R16

Thanks in advance
When you have rar files with R01, R02, R03, etc... you open the first one, R01, and extract. It will retrieve the data from the other rar files automatically.

As for the BIN and CUE files, you need PowerISO in order to extract or mount the data. This is basically an image file that need to be burned, mounted, or extracted in order to retrieve the data from it.
Hi, when I extracted R02 for example, it placed a new folder in the current one, and put another bin and cue file...is that what it's supposed to do? Does PowerISO work on Mac Snow Leopard?
I did not know you are running Snow Leopard. My experience is with Windows.

However, opening R01 in windows and extracting its contents should do the job. The other files will get accessed automatically and you do not have to extract R02.

It would help if you can take a screenshot of the R0X files and/or what's inside them.
I took a screenshot, but didn't know how to attach it to the post...I can put them on my other laptop though, so it works on Windows? I'll try it and see what happens...Thank you
you can't attach pics to the forum .... "un"fortunately.
if you extracted the rar, that means all went well :) dont worry about the rest of the files, they were used automatically.
Now what u need to do i burn the .BIN file. using your preferred image burning tool, open the .CUE file and it will burn the .BIN file onto a CD and ur done :)
or u can use a daemon tool to mount it.
Padre wroteyou can't attach pics to the forum .... "un"fortunately.
XSS?
ijanawra, use UnRAR X to extract the files correctly. If the output is an image, you can mount it by double clicking it. No need for third party software for mounting it, as opposed to what you might have gotten used to under Windows.
I tried so many different things, the only thing that worked was to put them onto my Windows machine, extract one of the rar files, then to use powerISO on the bin file, which gave me all of the files which included the video, then I burned it and transferred it to my mac, which worked fine. At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I found it so complicated and annoying, maybe there's an easier way from what you all told me, but I didn't get it
samer wroteijanawraNo need for third party software for mounting it, as opposed to what you might have gotten used to under Windows.
that's some cool functionality in a MAC !