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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 nosotros suggest you try The Unarchiver or Keka.

WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression. By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is often faster than the competition. This volition save you disc infinite, transmission costs AND valuable working fourth dimension as well.

Features:

  • WinRAR supports all popular compression formats (RAR, Null, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Cypher).
  • WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method. The special pinch algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well.
  • WinRAR allows y'all to separate athenaeum into carve up volumes easily, making it possible to salvage them on several disks for case.
  • WinRAR is also ideal, if you are sending data through the web. Its 128 bit countersign encryption and its authenticated signature technology will requite you the peace of mind you have been looking for.
  • WinRAR is shareware, significant you have the gamble to thoroughly test it. The program tin be used admittedly free of charge for twoscore days!
  • WinRAR licenses are valid for all available language and platform versions. If you accept purchased several licenses, you tin can fifty-fifty mix versions to meet your own personal needs.
  • WinRAR gives you all future UPDATES for Costless!

What'southward New:

  • WinRAR tin unpack contents of .zst and .zipx athenaeum utilizing Zstandard algorithm.
  • Added support of Windows 11 Explorer context menus.
    • Beginning from Windows 11, an application tin can add together just a single top level command or submenu to Explorer context card.
    • If "Cascaded context menus" in "Integration settings" dialog is on, this unmarried item is a submenu storing all necessary WinRAR commands. If this option is off, only i extraction command for athenaeum and one archiving control for usual files are available.
    • You can select these commands with "Context menu items..." button in "Integration settings" dialog.
  • "Legacy context menus" selection in "Settings/Integration" dialog can be used in Windows 11 if WinRAR commands are missing in "Show more options" Windows legacy context carte or in context menus of 3rd party file managers. If WinRAR commands are already nowadays hither, keep "Legacy context menus" option turned off to forestall duplicating them. This option is non available in Windows 10 and older.
  • Windows XP is non supported anymore. Minimum required operating system version is Windows Vista.
  • "Close" item is added to "When done" list on "Advanced" page of archiving dialog. Information technology 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 afterwards completing extraction.
  • Switch -si tin can exist used when extracting or testing to read annal data from stdin, such as:
    • type docs.rar | rar ten -si -o+ -pmypwd dummy docs\
    • Even though the annal name is ignored with this switch, an arbitrary dummy archive name has to specified in the command line. Operations requiring backward seeks are unavailable in this mode. It includes displaying annal comments, testing the recovery tape, utilizing the quick open up information, processing multivolume archives. Prompts requiring user interaction are not allowed. Use -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 constitute in the beginning of archived name. Path is compared with names already prepared to shop in archive, without bulldoze letters and leading path separators. For example:
    • rar a -ep4texts\books archive 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. Information technology replaces the former -p- switch.
  • New -op switch sets the destination folder for 'x' and 'e' extraction commands. Unlike path_to_extract command line parameter, this switch too accepts paths without trailing path separator grapheme.
  • If 'p' control is used to print a file to stdout, informational messages are suppressed automatically to preclude them mixing with file data.
  • "Generate annal proper name by mask" option and switch -ag treat simply first two 'Thousand' characters subsequently 'H' every bit minutes. Previously whatsoever amount of such characters was considered as minutes. It makes possible to place the fourth dimension field before the date, like -agHHMM-DDMMYY. Previous versions considered all 'M' in this cord as minutes.
  • Maximum allowed size of RAR5 recovery record is increased to 1000% of protected information size. Maximum number of RAR5 recovery volumes tin exist ten times larger than protected RAR volumes. Previous WinRAR versions are not able to apply the recovery tape to repair broken archives if recovery record size exceeds 99%. Similarly, previous versions cannot utilise 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 archive includes reserved device names, the underscore character is inserted in the starting time of such names when extracting. For example, aux.txt is converted to _aux.txt. It is done to forbid compatibility problems with software unable to procedure such names. You tin employ "Let potentially incompatible names" choice in "Advanced" function of extraction dialog or command line -oni switch to avoid this conversion.
  • WinRAR attempts to reset the file cache before testing an archive. It helps to verify actual information written to deejay instead of reading a cached re-create.
  • Multiple -five switches specifying different sizes for unlike volumes are now allowed also for ZIP archives:
    • WinRAR a -v100k -v200k -v300k arcname.zilch
    • Previously multiple -five switches were supported but for RAR archives.
  • Switches -sl and -sm can be used in WinRAR.exe command line mode when extracting archives in whatever supported formats, provided that such archive includes unpacked file sizes. Previously these switches could filter files past size only in RAR and ZIP archives.
  • Newer folder choice dialog is invoked when pressing "Browse" button in WinRAR "Settings/Paths" page, "Repair" and "Catechumen" commands, also as in few other similar places. Previously a simpler XP fashion folder selection dialog was opened.
  • When restoring from tray later completing an performance, WinRAR window is positioned under other opened windows, to not interfere with electric current user activities.
  • "650 MB CD" is removed and "2 GB volumes" is added to the list of predefined book sizes in "Ascertain book sizes" dialog invoked from WinRAR "Settings/Compression".
  • "Rename" control selects the file proper noun function up to the last dot. Previously information technology selected the entire name.
  • If SFX archive size exceeds iv GB, an error message is issued during compression, immediately subsequently exceeding this threshold. Previously this error was reported but later on completing compression. Executables of such size cannot be started by Windows.
  • Command line -en switch is non supported anymore. It created RAR4 archives without the end of annal record. Stop of archive record permits to gracefully skip external data like digital signatures.

Bugs stock-still:

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