How to unzip a rar in os x?

[Trance]

im windows user new to mac how do i unzip rar files?

 

[swiftaw]

Download unRarX

 

[GGJstudios]

im windows user new to mac how do i unzip rar files?

Did you try double-clicking it? If that doesn't work, you can use StuffIt Expander or UnRarX.

 

[MacUser2525]

im windows user new to mac how do i unzip rar files?

The Unarchiver

 

[samh]

im windows user new to mac how do i unzip rar files?

Well, technically, you can't "unzip" a rar file, on Windows or any other platform. ZIP is one kind of archival utility and RAR is another one. You can "decompress" a RAR file, or you can "unrar" it.

 

[stev3n]

The Unarchiver

The Unarchiver is a great program, I use it all the time.

 

[Sambo110]

Can't you just double click it?

 

[malias4]

As above said i also use unrarx just double click and it will do the job, only if the files u downloades contain a password, open first unrarx and fil in the password and then go on ...

 

[dusk007]

unrarX is quite inconvenient with passwords. It happens on some installs that the enter password option is nowhere to be found. It is just not there. I found I wasn't alone with that problem but nobody seems to have an answer. Took me a while to figure out who to open a pw protected rar without getting into the terminal.
Now I just use The Unarchiver works flawlessly. I also use the Pathfinder in exchange for the finder and it uses stuffIt by default, that one has a very poor progress display.

 

[philipt42]

The unarchiver is my default but sometimes I use unrarX. On the rare case that neither works, the RAR expander usually does.