Free RAR recovery software

[Sebastiano]

Hi guys,

I'm pretty sure this particular problem hasn't been addressed before and to my knowledge this is perfectly legal, but if anyone discovers otherwise, feel free to delete the thread or whatever.

I have a RAR file which is password protected. The website I downloaded it from also gave me a rather long list of possible passwords. Is there a piece of free software that will allow me to put all of these into a text file and have it try them all? I've found similar Windows programs but as of yet nothing which works on a Mac.

Thank you,

 

[andrewtj]

If you're comfortable at a shell prompt, install unrar and do something like:

for password in `cat passwords.txt`; do unrar e -p${password} archive.rar; done

Assuming passwords.txt contains one password per line.

 

[Sebastiano]

Is this through the terminal? I'm using StuffIt Expander. Would that change the command in any way? And where does the text file have to be?

 

[zhuismile88]

Free RAR recovery software

You can use RAR Password Recovery 5.0