Found 2 file types for the .RAR file extension
This page describes: WinRAR RAR compressed archive
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Software that works with rar file extension
File extension RAR - WinRAR RAR compressed archive
File extension RAR description:
The RAR file extension is associated with the WinRAR archiver. Like other archives, RAR files are data containers, they store one or several files in the compressed form. After you downloaded RAR file from Internet, you need to unpack its contents in order to use it.
Some RAR files can be parts of multi-volume sequences. In WinRAR you can split a huge archive to a few smaller files, which are called volumes. They may have extensions .rar (the first volume), .r00, .r01, r02, r03, r04, r05, ..., or .001 (the first volume), .002, .003, .004, .005, ..., or .part1.rar (the first volume), .part2.rar, ..., etc.
If you need to unpack rar volumes, place all them to the same folder and start extraction from the first volume.
RAR versus ZIP
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.
The native application for opening RAR files is WinRAR, but RAR is very popular archive format and many other compression utilities are able to open and extract RAR files such as: 7-zip, ZipZag, PeaZip.
Mime: application/rar
Mime: application/x-rar-compressed
The default software that works with rar file format:
Company or developer:
Eugene Roshal
WinRAR is a popular file compression and archive utility. Along with WinZip and 7-Zip is one of the most common compression programs for Windows. Its native format is as the name implies RAR and uses rar file extension.
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. WinRAR is also able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs. WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
Company or developer:
Eugene Roshal
RAR for Mac OS X is command line tool used to create and extract RAR archives.
Company or developer:
Eugene Roshal
Rar for Linux is command line utility used to create and extract RAR archives.
List of software associated to the .rar file extension
Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, Mac OS X etc.) and possible program actions
that can be done with the file: like open rar file, edit rar file, convert rar file, view rar file, play rar file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
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Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able
to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting of the rar files.
- Open rar file
- Save rar file
- Edit rar file
- View rar file
- Convert rar file
- Create rar file
- Extract rar file
- Recover rar file
Programs that open rar file - WinRAR RAR compressed archive
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Microsoft Windows platform:
Apple Mac OS X platform:
Main software associated with rar file by default:
RAR for Mac OS X
Other suggested software:
sArchiver
StuffIt Expander for Mac
Zipeg for Mac
ALZip for Mac
The Unarchiver
Linux/Unix platform:
Main software associated with rar file by default:
RAR for Linux
Other suggested software:
Xarchiver
File Roller
Blackberry platform:
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