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WinRAR RAR compressed archive
File type: Backup file, Archive and compressed file
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.
Found 2 different file type records with the same rar filename suffix.
File type category:
Backup file
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: July 19, 2025
File extension rar is most likely best known for its use in a compressed archive format created by RAR and its successor WinRAR file archiver.
The original program was available for MS-DOS only. Still, the newer versions are available for every version of Windows and even for some other platforms, such as Linux or Mac.
Like other compressed file archive formats, .rar files are data containers that store one or several files and folders in compressed form. Compressed data can be in one or multiple split files (e.g., archive.rar, archive.r01, archive.r02, etc.).
In WinRAR, you can split a huge archive into a few smaller files called volumes. If you need to unpack rar multi-volumes, place all of them in the same folder and start extraction from the first volume.
RAR archives can also be password protected.
MIME types used for WinRar rar archives:
application/rar
application/x-rar-compressed
Most modern file archivers support the RAR format on all operating systems. The default program for RAR archive format is WinRAR or RAR for Mac.
You can extract *.rar archives and repack RAR format to a different archive format simply by extracting the archive's contents and compressing them to a different format.
Software applications that can open rar files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Apple iOS
Google Android
Software applications that can edit rar files:
Software capable of saving rar files:
Software apps that create rar files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Google Android
Software apps that convert rar files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software apps that import rar files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software apps that export rar files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software apps that extract rar files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Apple iOS
Google Android
Software apps that recover rar files:
Microsoft Windows
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File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: June 3, 2019
The rar file extension is also sometimes used for Java JCA Resource Adapter module files.
Java Connector Architecture (JCA) is a standard that provides a uniform method for talking to different kinds of Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) from an application server.
JCA is designed to facilitate sharing of data and to integrate new J2EE applications with legacy or other heterogeneous systems.
These modeules are related to Java, perhaps only way to work with them is through that.
This type of RAR files cannot be converted.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving rar files:
Multiplatform
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