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Any freebie program(s) to extract .rar files?
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Jethryn Freyman
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miles01110
macrumors Core
How does it handle passworded .rar archives differently than UnRarX? I've never had an issue with it.
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arkitect
macrumors G3
The Unarchiver wants to grab control of split files as well as RARed files, although it cannot deal with the former, which is annoying. It is also useless with password protected files.
The Unarchiver is the best for decoding different code pages - the default is to ask you if it detects accents or non-Latin characters, while others mangle the names of the contents of the RAR files. For speed and consistency, I would plump for RAR Expander, which also handles password protected files.
If you are going for the Unarchiver as your all in one decompressor, then you will need RCDefaultApp to fix those MIME types.
The Unarchiver is the best for decoding different code pages - the default is to ask you if it detects accents or non-Latin characters, while others mangle the names of the contents of the RAR files. For speed and consistency, I would plump for RAR Expander, which also handles password protected files.
If you are going for the Unarchiver as your all in one decompressor, then you will need RCDefaultApp to fix those MIME types.
Jethryn Freyman
macrumors 68020
Oops, you're right, it's the Unarchiver that doesn't handle them properly, not UnRarX.
MAC-PRO-DEMON
macrumors 6502a
UnRarX allows you to merge multiple .rar files and then expand them to a single file... If you do that often... then you kinda gotta' go with that...
Unrarx is probably one of the best. I tried stuffit but it takes up to much resources and a lot of bloatware.
