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This is a discussion on How To add a password to your .rar archives (The Password Method) within the How to get greens forums, part of the Freebie Chat category; Continuing on from the Rapidshare Method thread I thought I would make this tutorial to show a way to promote ...
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17-06-09, 05:41 PM
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  | How To add a password to your .rar archives (The Password Method)Continuing on from the Rapidshare Method thread I thought I would make this tutorial to show a way to promote your ref link or site if you are distribuiting files through RS or MU. The method is to compress the file you are uploading and adding a password to it, that password being the URL of your site, this way the person downloading the file has to look at your site's URL which could mean they may visit the site. First of all you need to download winrar: WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files STEP 1  Right click the file you wish to upload and click on "Add to Archive..." STEP 2  You will be presented with the above window. Click on the "Advanced" tab. STEP 3  Now click on "Set Password" STEP 4  Type in the URL of your site as the password and then click OK STEP 5  Click on OK. A window should pop up showing the progress of the compression. STEP 6  Your .rar file is created, if you try to extract it it will ask you for a password (This being the URL of your site). Now you just have to upload it! |
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17-06-09, 05:44 PM
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| Call me Ben ....  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Bristol / Neath
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| Thanks mate, useful, annoyingly however when on a Mac i have no idea how to do this and only know how to make .zip compressions  If anyone knows how to make a .rar archive and also passworded then then i would be forever thankful 
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17-06-09, 06:10 PM
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| Thanks for this one. Might come in handy. |
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17-06-09, 06:53 PM
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 | Just a thought but you could upload the rar file with a text file called, lets say "PASSWORD"... then in that text file direct them to your site for the password!
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17-06-09, 06:56 PM
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| Call me Ben .... Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Bristol / Neath
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 Corky, interesting thought there, though not sure what people would think of doing that!
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 lolIf I can find something useful to upload might test it out and see if it works...
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17-06-09, 07:55 PM
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Let me google that for you | |
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17-06-09, 08:06 PM
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| Argh no, MORE WinRar passwords! lol, i'm sick of "purchasing" songs etc. in a WinRar file, only to find come extraction...I need a password! lol |
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17-06-09, 08:12 PM
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17-06-09, 08:51 PM
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| the better method id to have a lockbox ... it's a very helpful software to hide some files |
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