What is a RAR file? RAR is a proprietary file format for compressing files. It’s been around since the mid-1990s and was developed by a Russian engineer called Eugene Roshal. That’s why RAR stands for ...

A Roshal Archive or RAR file is a common type of file archive that your small business may encounter when someone shares data with you or when you download files from a website. Proprietary to the ...

You can create and open a RAR file on Mac using the WinRAR software specifically designed for Mac computers simply called RAR. In Terminal, type the " cd " command and navigate to the folder with the ...

This post explains how to convert files to RAR format in Windows 11/10. Microsoft has recently announced that users of Windows 11 will soon get native support for RAR files and several other archive ...

Extracting RAR files on a Mac can be difficult because macOS doesn’t support it directly. However, RAR is a popular format that bundles many files into one. If you have received or downloaded a RAR ...

One inherent weakness in WinRAR is its inability to handle long file names and directory structures. Attempting to extract long names from a business RAR file will ...

To split or combine RAR files in Windows 11/10, you may use WinRAR, a popular file compression/archiver software for Windows. The compression algorithm in WinRAR allows you to split a large file into ...

CISA warns WinRAR CVE-2025-6218 is under active attack by multiple threat groups, requiring federal fixes by Dec. 30, 2025.

Correct me, but from my reading, the PAR2 files are just there to verify the integrity of the contents, so I ran QuickPar on them and it says everything is good (no repairs needed).<BR><BR>So I have 5 ...