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

WinRAR puts y'all ahead of the crowd when information technology comes to compression. By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is frequently faster than the competition. This will relieve y'all disc space, transmission costs AND valuable working time as well.

Features:

  • WinRAR supports all popular compression formats (RAR, Zilch, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip).
  • WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the all-time compression method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well.
  • WinRAR allows you to separate archives into separate volumes easily, making it possible to save them on several disks for example.
  • WinRAR is also ideal, if yous are sending information through the web. Its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature technology volition give you the peace of mind you have been looking for.
  • WinRAR is shareware, meaning you take the chance to thoroughly test it. The programme tin be used absolutely free of charge for 40 days!
  • WinRAR licenses are valid for all available linguistic communication and platform versions. If you take purchased several licenses, you tin can even mix versions to meet your own personal needs.
  • WinRAR gives y'all all future UPDATES for Costless!

What's New:

  • WinRAR tin can unpack contents of .zst and .zipx athenaeum utilizing Zstandard algorithm.
  • Added back up of Windows xi Explorer context menus.
    • Offset from Windows 11, an application can add only a single summit level command or submenu to Explorer context carte du jour.
    • If "Cascaded context menus" in "Integration settings" dialog is on, this single item is a submenu storing all necessary WinRAR commands. If this pick is off, only i extraction command for archives and i archiving control for usual files are available.
    • You lot tin select these commands with "Context menu items..." button in "Integration settings" dialog.
  • "Legacy context menus" option in "Settings/Integration" dialog tin be used in Windows 11 if WinRAR commands are missing in "Show more options" Windows legacy context bill of fare or in context menus of third party file managers. If WinRAR commands are already present hither, go along "Legacy context menus" option turned off to prevent duplicating them. This pick is not available in Windows 10 and older.
  • Windows XP is non supported anymore. Minimum required operating system version is Windows Vista.
  • "Close" detail is added to "When done" list 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 computer off or closing WinRAR after completing extraction.
  • Switch -si can exist used when extracting or testing to read annal data from stdin, such equally:
    • blazon docs.rar | rar 10 -si -o+ -pmypwd dummy docs\
    • Even though the archive name is ignored with this switch, an arbitrary dummy archive name has to specified in the command line. Operations requiring astern seeks are unavailable in this manner. It includes displaying archive comments, testing the recovery tape, utilizing the quick open data, processing multivolume archives. Prompts requiring user interaction are non immune. 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 annal c:\texts\books\technical
    • removes "text\books" from archived names, so they start from 'technical'.
  • New -mes switch skips encrypted files when extracting or testing. It replaces the former -p- switch.
  • New -op switch sets the destination folder for 'x' and 'e' extraction commands. Unlike path_to_extract control line parameter, this switch besides accepts paths without abaft path separator character.
  • If 'p' command is used to print a file to stdout, informational letters are suppressed automatically to prevent them mixing with file information.
  • "Generate archive name past mask" option and switch -ag treat only first two 'M' characters after 'H' every bit minutes. Previously any amount of such characters was considered as minutes. Information technology makes possible to identify the time field before the engagement, like -agHHMM-DDMMYY. Previous versions considered all 'Grand' in this string as minutes.
  • Maximum allowed size of RAR5 recovery record is increased to 1000% 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 tape to repair broken athenaeum if recovery record size exceeds 99%. Similarly, previous versions cannot employ recovery volumes if their number is equal or larger than number of RAR volumes.
  • Warning is issued if entered countersign exceeds the allowed limit of 127 characters and is truncated. Previously such passwords had been truncated silently.
  • If annal includes reserved device names, the underscore character is inserted in the beginning of such names when extracting. For example, aux.txt is converted to _aux.txt. It is done to prevent compatibility problems with software unable to procedure such names. You can use "Allow potentially incompatible names" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog or command line -oni switch to avoid this conversion.
  • WinRAR attempts to reset the file cache before testing an archive. Information technology helps to verify actual information written to disk instead of reading a buried copy.
  • Multiple -v switches specifying different sizes for dissimilar volumes are now immune likewise for Zip athenaeum:
    • WinRAR a -v100k -v200k -v300k arcname.zip
    • Previously multiple -v switches were supported only for RAR archives.
  • Switches -sl and -sm tin exist used in WinRAR.exe command line mode when extracting athenaeum in any supported formats, provided that such archive includes unpacked file sizes. Previously these switches could filter files by size only in RAR and Cipher athenaeum.
  • Newer folder selection dialog is invoked when pressing "Browse" button in WinRAR "Settings/Paths" folio, "Repair" and "Catechumen" commands, likewise as in few other similar places. Previously a simpler XP style binder pick dialog was opened.
  • When restoring from tray after completing an performance, WinRAR window is positioned under other opened windows, to not interfere with current user activities.
  • "650 MB CD" is removed and "ii GB volumes" is added to the list of predefined volume sizes in "Define volume sizes" dialog invoked from WinRAR "Settings/Compression".
  • "Rename" command selects the file name role up to the final dot. Previously it selected the entire name.
  • If SFX archive size exceeds 4 GB, an error message is issued during pinch, immediately after exceeding this threshold. Previously this error was reported only after completing compression. Executables of such size cannot be started by Windows.
  • Control line -en switch is non supported anymore. It created RAR4 archives without the end of archive record. End of archive record permits to gracefully skip external data like digital signatures.

Bugs fixed:

  • when editing a file within of .rar or .zip archive, WinRAR created a new SFX annal instead of updating an existing archive if "Create SFX annal" option was prepare in the default pinch profile;
  • the total progress could be displayed incorrectly when using -oi, -f, -u switches or advisable GUI options;
  • "Find files" command with "Use all tables" choice and command line "it" commands failed to detect strings in UTF-16 encoding.