Questions tagged [rar]
RAR is a proprietary compression type and stands for Roshal ARchive.
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Compressing with RAR vs ZIP [closed]
A lot of people are compressing files with RAR, sending compressed files with RAR and so on.
ZIP is more standard and works on all platforms. Windows users have ZIP included and Linux users have no ...
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How can I extract .rar files on the Mac? [closed]
Is there anything built-in that does this? (E.g. command line tools.) Or are there any third-party apps?
Update: I like The Unarchiver, but vote up your favourite, or add it as an answer if it isn’t ...
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How do I recover the password of a RAR file on Mac OS X?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.2 and have been handed a couple of old files that need to be extracted. Old backups or finances or bills I believe. They are RAR files, and password protected. Is there a way ...
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Unrar creating files with backslashes in names instead of proper directory hierarchy
I'm working on moving the content of a website, which was provided to me in a RAR archive, to a new server.
I'm not exactly sure which flavor of Linux it is; uname -a tells me:
Linux bolt.sonic.net ...
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How to extract corrupted RAR files
I try to extract a file from set of .RAR parts. I always get the following error:
Corrupted
so I tried many programs to extract the corrupted RAR files. I have 10 parts, each one 400MB big. The last ...
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Tool to mount a zip/rar/* archive as a Win drive and be able to read/write as a normal device? [closed]
I'm looking for some tool that, given a zip/rar/tar/* archive file, mounts it as a new Windows drive. Some tools are WinMount or WinArchive, but I need one that allows me to write/create/delete files ...
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Can I remove a RAR file's (known) password without recompressing the archive?
I know the password to the RAR file as I locked it myself. Is there a way to do this in WinRAR or an equivalent program? The only thing I knew to do was to extract it, then create a new RAR without ...
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RAR password cracker
Does the RAR file format use a serious encryption (such as AES)?
Will it take unfeasibly long to brute force a password?
If not, what tools do you suggest that do so automatically?
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Create rar without directory structure from command line
I've got a folder full of folders, and some of those folders may or may not have folders in them. It looks something like this:
~/stuff/01.d/01/files
~/stuff/02.d/files
~/stuff/03.d/files
~/stuff/04....
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What is the difference between rar and RAR5 compression?
What is the difference between rar and RAR5 compression ?
Which is better for which purpose vs the compression time.
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How to edit a file in a zip or rar archive?
I have a large archive with files that I need to edit, but I don't want to extract / zip every time. Is there a way to edit the files directly while in the archive? I opened them and when I save it ...
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NTFS alternate stream in compressed archive?
Does any of the major compressed archive formats in Windows (e.g. zip, rar, 7z) support NTFS alternate data stream?
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extracting file with too long of a name
I have a rar archive that I downloaded, except some of the filenames are too long to be created by ubuntu. How can I extract all of the files?
The default archive manager on ubuntu goes through most ...
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Extract multipart rar, deleting parts as they are extracted
I have a multipart rar of 80GB unpacked. I have 5GB of free space, and every part of the rar archive is 2GB.
What I'm looking for is to extract one part, delete it, extract the next, and so on, as to ...
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Why is WinRAR 5 not giving me an option to use RAR5 format and only RAR4?
I just realized something. I recently purchased the WinRAR v.5.60 archive software:
But when I right-click some file that I want to RAR and then click Add to archive, the popup window offers me only ...
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How to unrar the STDIN?
What I have tried:
cat archive.rar | unrar x -
cat archive.rar | unrar x /dev/stdin
cat archive.rar | 7z x -
cat archive.rar | 7z x -si
cat archive.rar | 7z l -si
The unrar doesn't recognise the - ...
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How can I compress every 10 files in a folder as a separate zip file?
I'm on Windows 10 and trying to work it out with Winrar. The folder contains 500 files, I would like to compress every 10 of them as a separate zip/rar file and create 50 zip/rar files.
Is there a ...
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Is it possible to create a RAR from specific selected files inside another RAR?
So I have one RAR and I want to create another RAR from only the (let's say 10K) files inside that compressed archive without uncompressing it.
Hope this makes sense and thank you all in advance!
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Expand rars like other archives (zip, bzip, gzip, &c) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s a good way to extract .rar files on the Mac?
What (free) program will allow me to double click on a rar and have it just expand everything into a folder, the way it ...
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Is it better to compress all data or compressed directories?
I'm archiving some projects, let's say each of them has own directory:
projects
|- project-1
|- project-2
|- project-3
I started compressing them as following:
==== SITUATION 1 ====
projects
|-...
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How to change password on RAR archive w/o modifying arch. files attributes (modified/created)?
How do I change the password of an .RAR archive, without changing the date/time attributes of the files in the archive? Unfortunately you can't directly change the password of the archive with WinRAR,...
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Can Archive Manager distinguish between wrong password and corrupted file?
I have two old encrypted RAR files. I know their passwords, but something interesting happens:
When I try to open each file in File Roller (Ubuntu's default archive manager) and enter the wrong ...
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How to find the Password of RAR Archived Files?
Is it possible to find password of files inside RAR archive, that I have uncompressed files outside that archive and the files are exactly the same as in the archive?
Summary: How to find the Password ...
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