

The RAR5 file format increased the maximum dictionary size to 1 GB 11 different compression directory sizes from 1 MB to 1 GB are available, with the default in version 5 increased from 4 MB to 32 MB, typically improving compression ratio.

WinRAR versions before 5.0 do not support RAR5 archives only older versions of WinRAR run on Windows versions prior to XP, and cannot open RAR5 archives. Support for the archive format RAR5, using the same RAR file extension as earlier versions, was added in version 5.0 the older RAR file format has since been referred to as RAR4. WinRAR and the RAR file format have evolved over time. Related programs include the command-line utilities "RAR" and "UNRAR" and versions for macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows CE, and MS-DOS. An Android application called "RAR for Android" is also available. WinRAR supports creating encrypted, multi-part and self-extracting archives. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds CRC32 or BLAKE2 checksums for each file in each archive. It can create and view archives in RAR or ZIP file formats, and unpack numerous archive file formats. WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility for Windows, developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH. Trialware ( nagware for individual users) The Archive name and parameters dialogue box (shown ) opens.Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Colombian Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese Click the Add icon at the top of the window or go to Commands | Add files to archive or press Alt + A. Select the file(s) or folder(s) press the Ctrl key to select multiple files/folders. Use the file browser to change directories to the location of the file(s) or folder(s) you want to compress. Go to Start | All Programs | WinRAR to start the program.

In both cases you can use WinRAR to compress files. Another reason to compress a file is to email a large file to someone whose mail space does not allow receiving a file as large as the uncompressed version. You can put archive files on a floppy disk, a ZIP disk, a flash drive, a CD or DVD, as well as leaving them on the local hard drive or network drive. Click OK.īecause disk quota is always a finite resource, you may find that you need to archive files to free up space for other files. Select the folder to save in and set the Update and Overwrite modes. If you select Extract files., the Extraction path and options dialogue box (shown) opens.
