No matter how long you’ve been using your Mac (or worst, PC), there will always be undiscovered dark-matter issues to solve. They never seem to end. And today is that day which reminds me that this will never be over.
It’s about new file type that may have passed your eyes before, but it’s completely out-of-this-world to me.
Their extensions look something like this: avi.001 avi.002 avi.003 and so on. Anybody would have guess that these file must be multiple zips or rars files, waiting to be joined together again. However, even Stuffit can’t handle them. In fact, it has no idea what the heck those files are. So did i.
After googled about an hour i have found that many suggested me to try the free PC software called “HJSplit” I tried it and it worked! But since the only PC in my house does belong to my wife i will have to find a way to join those avi.001, avi.002, avi.003 on my Mac.
After googled about an hour more, did not find any answers at all. A guy told me to use unrarx. But since I want to join files not to extract them, unrarx is out of the question.
So, i turned to my long time helper, versiontracker.com and search for ”join .001″ and the search is over. I have found the best software for this job. Ajoiner.
This software doesn’t even have interface. Only thing you need to do is open the folder which contains those alien files .001 .002…. When i was ready to join my files into a movie, it told me that 2 of my files aren’t complete. Without it telling me that, i would be blaming everything else but those files.
Thanks to Ajoiner, you just saved my day. Oh, and while you’re at it, also give Split&Concat software a try. It suppose to do the same job as well.
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Hi. You don’t even need to use a 3rd party application. Just open Terminal, write the command “cat” then grab and drop into the terminal window the files you want to join: avi.001 avi.002, etc. Then write a “>” symbol and the new path and filename. The instruction will look this way: /Users/…cat avi.001 /Users/…avi.002 (etc) > /Users/…newfilename.avi
And you are done.
@Luis i think what you suggested sound pretty complicate to a new user like me.