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Conversion of rar file format to rar5 file format beta

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Convert WinRAR RAR compressed archive to WinRAR 5 compressed archive.

We have found 2 software records in our database eligible for .rar to .rar5 file format conversion.

Both .rar and .rar5 files are archives, just in different version of WinRAR. There was a time when WinRAR experimented with new algorthm and changed extension to rar5 for that version, but it went back and it's just RAR now. You can repack archives with WinRAR and if you use the latest version of the tool, you will get files compressed with the latest algorithm. No rar to rar5 conversion is most likely required.

Updated: October 9, 2023

Microsoft Windows software Microsoft Windows icon - convert rar to rar5 on Windows

WinRAR icon WinRAR

One of the oldest and most popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility

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Convert from rar file

Yes, WinRAR supports rar file conversion as a source file type.YesYesrar editorYesNoNoYes

to rar5 file

NoYesYesrar5 editorYesNoNoYes

The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned rar to rar5. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.

Apple macOS / Mac OS X software Apple macOS / Mac OS X icon - convert rar to rar5 on OS X

RAR for Mac icon RAR for Mac

A Mac version of popular RAR program

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rar

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rar5

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Additional links: Open rar file, Open rar5 file

RAR

Files with rar extension are compressed archives using RAR or WinRAR compression utilities. Along with the ZIP format, the RAR format is one of the most common formats used and can be extracted by almost every archiving tool.

RAR5

An rar5 file extension is related to the WinRAR compression utility and it is used to identify WinRAR 5 compressed archives.

 

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