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Split Multi-volume RAR compressed file archive (part 2)
File type: Archive and compressed file
An r00 file extension is related to WinRAR data compression tool. An r00 file stores second part of split multi-volume RAR compressed archive.
Found 2 different file type records with the same r00 filename suffix.
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: July 19, 2025
The r00 file extension is associated with WinRAR. Its one part of a multi-volume compressed RAR archive.
The rar file extension is used for the native format of WinRAR archiver. Like other archives, RAR files are data containers, they store one or several files in the compressed form. Compressed archives are common on internet, especially on sharing sites. After you have downloaded RAR file from Internet, you need to unpack its contents in order to use it. Comparing to ZIP file format, RAR provides a number of advanced features: more convenient multipart (multivolume) archives, tight compression including special solid, multimedia and text modes, strong AES-128 encryption, recovery records helping to repair an archive even in case of physical data damage, Unicode support to process non-English file names and a lot more.
Some RAR files can be parts of a multi-volume sequences. In WinRAR you can split a huge archive to a few smaller files, which are called volumes.
Older versions of WinRAR used either:
Or:
The newer versions of WinRAR are using:
In order to unpack the multi-volume RAR archive, you need to place ALL of the split parts in the same directory and start extraction of the first volume. The program will automatically use all of the parts to extract the content of the archive.
The r00 file is only one part of RAR multi-volume archive. If you want to extract this file, you must have all parts of the RAR multi-volume archive. Open the first part of RAR multi-volume archive in WinRAR application and extract files from RAR multi-volume archive.
It is not possible to convert only one part of RAR multi-volume archive. Only complete RAR archive can be converted in to another archive or compression format. The easiest way how to convert complete RAR multi-volume archive is to decompress the RAR archive with the use of WinRAR and repack the content with another compression or archive application of your choice.
Software applications that can open r00 files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Software applications that can edit r00 files:
Linux/Unix
Software capable of saving r00 files:
Linux/Unix
Software apps that create r00 files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Software apps that convert r00 files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that extract r00 files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Software apps that recover r00 files:
Microsoft Windows
Multi-volume, also multi-part or split archives, were and are still used by many users. It is basica...
File type category:
Backup file
Date updated: November 12, 2018
The r00 file extension is used by Norton Ghost. Backup file in RAR compression format. .r00 file extension is most often used by WinRAR for split archive file.
This file format is described at this rar.
Use WinRAR to open file with .r00 file extension.
Probably cannot be converted to other formats.
Software applications that can open r00 files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create r00 files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that backup r00 files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that recover r00 files:
Microsoft Windows
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