This conversion basically represents repacking two various versions of RAR archives from one to another. You probably do not even need to actually convert the archive, simple rename of the extension from rar5 to rar should suffice as most programs nowadays recognize all kinds of .rar archives; no matter their version.
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Conversion of rar5 file format to rar file format beta
Search for rar5 to rar converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert WinRAR 5 compressed archive file to WinRAR RAR compressed archive.
We have found 2 software records in our database eligible for .rar5 to .rar file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert rar5 to rar on Windows
WinRAR
A 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.
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from rar5 file | No | Yes | Yes | rar5 editor | Yes | No | No | Yes |
to rar file | Yes, WinRAR supports rar file conversion as a target file type. | Yes | Yes | rar editor | Yes | No | No | Yes |
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 rar5 to rar. 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.
7-zip
A free file archiver developed by Igor Pavlov featuring higher compression ratios with LZMA and LZMA2 compression.
It is mainly available for Windows platform (for Mac and Linux are available command line tools) and is the primary program to handle 7z archives. However, also supports various compression file formats.
Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z
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