RAR File

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Judy at Home

I've read the posts about opening a rar file. I guess I need to purchase or
download software in order to be able to do this? I an email from my cousin
with a bunch of pdf files in a .rar file. I can't open it. Windows tells me
to set the association so I went to that part of the control panel but .rar
doesn't show up in the listing of files to associate. Am I missing something?
If I do need to download software can anyone recommend one?
 
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Don

Judy at Home said:
I've read the posts about opening a rar file. I guess I need to purchase
or
download software in order to be able to do this? I an email from my
cousin
with a bunch of pdf files in a .rar file. I can't open it. Windows tells
me
to set the association so I went to that part of the control panel but
.rar
doesn't show up in the listing of files to associate. Am I missing
something?
If I do need to download software can anyone recommend one?
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A rar file, is a compressed ( packed ) file, much like a zip file in
windows. You need the winrar utility, to unpack a rar file. You can download
the trial version and use it to unpack your file.

http://www.rarlab.com/
 
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DanS

I've read the posts about opening a rar file. I guess I need to
purchase or download software in order to be able to do this? I an
email from my cousin with a bunch of pdf files in a .rar file. I can't
open it. Windows tells me to set the association so I went to that
part of the control panel but .rar doesn't show up in the listing of
files to associate. Am I missing something? If I do need to download
software can anyone recommend one?
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Note, if you do install WinRAR, install with the 'Advanced' option, and
deselct ALL file associations except for .rar files.

Otherwise, all compression extensions will be registered with WinRAR.
 
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Synapse Syndrome

DanS said:
Note, if you do install WinRAR, install with the 'Advanced' option, and
deselct ALL file associations except for .rar files.

Otherwise, all compression extensions will be registered with WinRAR.
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Good point. I do that too. Otherwise it even associates itself with .iso
files, IIRC.

ss.
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

A rar file, is a compressed ( packed ) file, much like a zip file in
windows. You need the winrar utility, to unpack a rar file. You can download
the trial version and use it to unpack your file.
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Or Judy might want to ask her cousin to resend it as the considerably
more common file type zip.

Someone who sends someone else a RAR file, without first ascertaining
that the recipient will have the knowledge and ability to open it is
rather strange.
 
J

John Barnes

Even more bizarre my last BIOS update came as a .zip file within a .rar
file. Go figure.
 
D

Don

Ken Blake said:
Or Judy might want to ask her cousin to resend it as the considerably
more common file type zip.

Someone who sends someone else a RAR file, without first ascertaining
that the recipient will have the knowledge and ability to open it is
rather strange.


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Very true, that is odd!
 
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DanS

WinRAR has been mentioned a few times already, but it's not free. It
still works after the trial period, although you get a nag dialogue.
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Only a nag dialog when using the UI, not when using WinRAR thru the context
menu.
 
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DanS

7zip is a free utility and works great in 32 or 64-bit versions
http://www.7-zip.org/
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7Zip has 2 deal-breaker flaws for me (unless these were changed in a later
version)......

1) When marking a bunch of files to extract in Explorer and using the 7Zip
context menu command to extract. When you run into a duplicate file, and
click 'Yes to All' to overwrite, that only sticks for the file it is
extracting at the moment. If the next highlighted file extracted has
another duplicate, you have to click 'Yes to All' again....and again....

2) It seems as though 7Zip can't extract to a non-existant path. WinZip and
WinRAR will both create the path for you, but 7Zip requires the folder be
present so you have to create it manually, or go thru their 'New Folder'
dialog.
 
J

John Barnes

Neither one is a current consideration.

DanS said:
7Zip has 2 deal-breaker flaws for me (unless these were changed in a later
version)......

1) When marking a bunch of files to extract in Explorer and using the 7Zip
context menu command to extract. When you run into a duplicate file, and
click 'Yes to All' to overwrite, that only sticks for the file it is
extracting at the moment. If the next highlighted file extracted has
another duplicate, you have to click 'Yes to All' again....and again....

2) It seems as though 7Zip can't extract to a non-existant path. WinZip
and
WinRAR will both create the path for you, but 7Zip requires the folder be
present so you have to create it manually, or go thru their 'New Folder'
dialog.
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