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RAR is a proprietary compression type and stands for Roshal ARchive.

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How can I extract .rar files on the Mac?

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 there.
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Compressing with RAR vs ZIP

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 trouble with that file format. The tests I did…
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How can I extract multipart RAR files using the command line unrar.exe?

Is there a way to extract all RAR files using unrar.exe via the command line without passing it each part? I have lots of multipart RAR files in mixed formats: .part1.rar, .part2.rar or .rar, .r00, .r01, etc. Is there a trick I'm missing or this is…
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What UnRar utilities are available for Mac OS X?

I have been using UnRarX ( http://www.unrarx.com/ ) and it's free and works well, but often times I will download a rar file in the browser and click on it in the recent downloads lists which will extract it but not show it in the finder. Ideally…
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How is it possible that WinRAR can repair any volume with one .rev file?

I just learned about .rev files with WinRAR -- where if you have a 10-part RAR volume, for example, plus one .rev (recovery) volume -- the .rev volume will be able to "fix" any one corrupted .rar volume. How is this possible? I don't understand how…
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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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Tool to mount a zip/rar/* archive as a Win drive and be able to read/write as a normal device?

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 as well as read. That is, just as if it were a…
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Is it safe to delete a file that is reportedly bigger than it should be

After calling unrar on a RAR archive on my 1 TB NTFS drive, I am left with a file, that reportedly has a size of 86T. Is it safe to delete such file? What is the best way to safely get rid of this file? Of course, when removed, the file should be…
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How do I rar a file into several parts in Linux?

I want to make a rar file(not tar or gzip) with several parts in linux shell, how is it possible ? for example my file is : m.avi - 500mb I want this : m.part1.rar 250mb m.part2.rar 250mb
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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 prompts for a location.
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Why some torrent files are split into many small rar files?

Why some torrent files are split into many small rar files? Does this improve the download speed? Or is it better for the trackers? What's the rationale behind this?
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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 to extract the hash from these files so I can…
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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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How to extract multipart rar with missing parts?

I have a multipart .rar archive containing a single .tar.gz file inside it (don't ask why, that is just how it was made). I am missing a few of the parts, but do have the first part. I would like to extract as much of the .tar.gz as possible. How…
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Recursive unrar of several folders

I have several RAR archives spread around multiple directories but all under a particular root folder on my Debian based NAS. Could someone help me write a simple script that would recursively go into each folder, unrar the contents, go back to the…
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