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Note: WinRAR for macOS is a control-line only application. If you want an intuitive GUI client for your compression / decompression needs we suggest you endeavor The Unarchiver or Keka.

WinRAR puts you lot ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression. By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is often faster than the contest. This will save you lot disc space, transmission costs AND valuable working time as well.

Features:

  • WinRAR supports all pop pinch formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Nada).
  • WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well.
  • WinRAR allows you to split athenaeum into split up volumes easily, making it possible to save them on several disks for example.
  • WinRAR is also ideal, if you are sending data through the spider web. Its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature applied science will give you lot the peace of mind yous have been looking for.
  • WinRAR is shareware, pregnant you take the gamble to thoroughly examination it. The program can exist used absolutely free of charge for twoscore days!
  • WinRAR licenses are valid for all available linguistic communication and platform versions. If you have purchased several licenses, y'all tin can even mix versions to run into your own personal needs.
  • WinRAR gives you all future UPDATES for FREE!

What's New:

  • WinRAR can unpack contents of .zst and .zipx athenaeum utilizing Zstandard algorithm.
  • Added back up of Windows 11 Explorer context menus.
    • Kickoff from Windows 11, an awarding tin can add merely a single elevation level command or submenu to Explorer context card.
    • If "Cascaded context menus" in "Integration settings" dialog is on, this single item is a submenu storing all necessary WinRAR commands. If this option is off, only 1 extraction command for archives and one archiving command for usual files are available.
    • Yous tin select these commands with "Context menu items..." button in "Integration settings" dialog.
  • "Legacy context menus" option in "Settings/Integration" dialog tin exist used in Windows 11 if WinRAR commands are missing in "Show more than options" Windows legacy context menu or in context menus of third party file managers. If WinRAR commands are already present here, proceed "Legacy context menus" pick turned off to prevent duplicating them. This selection is not bachelor in Windows 10 and older.
  • Windows XP is not supported anymore. Minimum required operating system version is Windows Vista.
  • "Close" item is added to "When done" listing on "Advanced" page of archiving dialog. It closes WinRAR window, when archiving is done.
  • "When done" list is added to "Options" page of extraction dialog. It allows to select an action like turning a estimator off or endmost WinRAR after completing extraction.
  • Switch -si can exist used when extracting or testing to read archive data from stdin, such as:
    • type docs.rar | rar 10 -si -o+ -pmypwd dummy docs\
    • Even though the archive name is ignored with this switch, an capricious dummy annal proper name has to specified in the command line. Operations requiring backward seeks are unavailable in this fashion. It includes displaying archive comments, testing the recovery record, utilizing the quick open up data, processing multivolume archives. Prompts requiring user interaction are non allowed. Utilise -o[+|-|r], -p or -mes switches to suppress such prompts.
  • New -ep4 switch excludes the path prefix when archiving or extracting if this path is found in the beginning of archived name. Path is compared with names already prepared to store in archive, without drive letters and leading path separators. For example:
    • rar a -ep4texts\books archive c:\texts\books\technical
    • removes "text\books" from archived names, and so they start from 'technical'.
  • New -mes switch skips encrypted files when extracting or testing. It replaces the quondam -p- switch.
  • New -op switch sets the destination folder for 'x' and 'e' extraction commands. Unlike path_to_extract command line parameter, this switch besides accepts paths without trailing path separator character.
  • If 'p' command is used to print a file to stdout, informational messages are suppressed automatically to prevent them mixing with file data.
  • "Generate archive name by mask" option and switch -ag care for only start ii 'Chiliad' characters after 'H' every bit minutes. Previously any amount of such characters was considered as minutes. It makes possible to identify the fourth dimension field before the appointment, similar -agHHMM-DDMMYY. Previous versions considered all 'One thousand' in this string as minutes.
  • Maximum allowed size of RAR5 recovery record is increased to chiliad% of protected data size. Maximum number of RAR5 recovery volumes can be 10 times larger than protected RAR volumes. Previous WinRAR versions are non able to use the recovery record to repair broken archives if recovery record size exceeds 99%. Similarly, previous versions cannot use recovery volumes if their number is equal or larger than number of RAR volumes.
  • Alert is issued if entered password exceeds the allowed limit of 127 characters and is truncated. Previously such passwords had been truncated silently.
  • If archive includes reserved device names, the underscore graphic symbol is inserted in the beginning of such names when extracting. For example, aux.txt is converted to _aux.txt. Information technology is done to prevent compatibility bug with software unable to process such names. You can use "Permit potentially incompatible names" pick in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog or command line -oni switch to avert this conversion.
  • WinRAR attempts to reset the file enshroud before testing an archive. Information technology helps to verify actual data written to deejay instead of reading a cached copy.
  • Multiple -v switches specifying dissimilar sizes for different volumes are now allowed also for ZIP athenaeum:
    • WinRAR a -v100k -v200k -v300k arcname.zip
    • Previously multiple -v switches were supported only for RAR athenaeum.
  • Switches -sl and -sm tin be used in WinRAR.exe control line mode when extracting archives in whatever supported formats, provided that such archive includes unpacked file sizes. Previously these switches could filter files by size only in RAR and ZIP archives.
  • Newer folder selection dialog is invoked when pressing "Browse" push button in WinRAR "Settings/Paths" folio, "Repair" and "Convert" commands, too as in few other similar places. Previously a simpler XP style binder selection dialog was opened.
  • When restoring from tray after completing an operation, WinRAR window is positioned under other opened windows, to not interfere with current user activities.
  • "650 MB CD" is removed and "2 GB volumes" is added to the list of predefined volume sizes in "Define book sizes" dialog invoked from WinRAR "Settings/Compression".
  • "Rename" control selects the file proper noun part up to the final dot. Previously it selected the entire name.
  • If SFX archive size exceeds 4 GB, an error bulletin is issued during compression, immediately afterwards exceeding this threshold. Previously this error was reported merely later completing compression. Executables of such size cannot be started by Windows.
  • Control line -en switch is not supported anymore. It created RAR4 archives without the end of archive record. End of annal record permits to gracefully skip external data like digital signatures.

Bugs fixed:

  • when editing a file inside of .rar or .naught archive, WinRAR created a new SFX archive instead of updating an existing archive if "Create SFX archive" choice was gear up in the default pinch contour;
  • the total progress could exist displayed incorrectly when using -oi, -f, -u switches or appropriate GUI options;
  • "Find files" command with "Utilize all tables" option and control line "it" commands failed to find strings in UTF-16 encoding.