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Several ways to open a RAR file. How to open a rar file - all possible ways

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On the one hand, archives can seriously save memory (because compressed file takes up less space), their transmission over the Internet is accelerated (where every megabyte counts), but on the other hand, some problems often arise with them. The fact is that it is not always possible to open an archive on Android (much depends on the version of the system, on which explorer is built into it).

Well, since the number of files in the archives is simply huge (many books, documents, etc. - everything is in compressed form), the problem is very relevant. In this article I will give several ways on how you can open popular archive formats on Android and work with them. I think this note will be very useful for many...

Addition!

By the way, if you want to run an Android emulator program on your computer (in which you can install applications for your phone), then I recommend that you familiarize yourself with this:

Method 1: Using Built-in Explorer

IN modern version Android (as a rule (possibly with the exception of some Chinese devices)) built-in multifunctional conductor. It allows you to view and work with popular formats archives as with regular directories: open and extract files from them.

To check the operation of your Explorer: first expand the list of all applications and find “Explorer” among them (there is usually no shortcut to it on the first screen). See screenshot below.

Next, go to the "Files" section and find your archive in one of the phone memory or SD card directories (depending on where you copied it to). For example, my archive was in the "Documents" folder. If you select a specific archive, a menu with a choice should appear "Open/Extract" archive. See the screenshot below, a "ZIP" format archive was opened.

In general, everything is simple and fast. The only point: if you have quite a lot of archives and you often work with them, then this method may not be very convenient (I will consider a couple of alternative options below).

Addition!

If you have books in your archives and various documents(DOC, PDF, DJVU format) - then they can also be viewed using special. reading programs. I talked about them in this article:

Method 2: using special. applications

Archivers

ZArchiver

Multifunctional free application for working with archives. I would like to note that the program is very omnivorous: it allows you to work with dozens of archive formats. You can also say a couple of compliments to a rather simple and convenient interface. Below I will indicate the most basic features.

Peculiarities:

  1. allows you to open and view archives of the following formats: 7z, 7-zip, zip, rar, rar5, bzip2, gzip, xz, iso, tar, arj, cab, lzh, lha, lzma, etc.;
  2. allows you to create archives: 7z, 7-zip, zip, bzip2, bz2, gzip, gz, XZ, tar;
  3. ability to work with password-protected archives;
  4. the ability to add and remove some separate files from the archives;
  5. support for multi-volume archives 7z and rar;
  6. the ability to open attached archives to letters (convenient, since many people have email connected to their phones);
  7. support for UTF-8 encoding (this means that you should not have problems with Russian characters - no more!).
RAR

Another fairly popular archiver for both computers and mobile gadgets. Allows you to work with everyone popular files archives (see features for details), supports encrypted archives, password-protected ones, etc. In general, it’s a fairly multifunctional product that will help you out more than once!

Peculiarities:

  1. ability to unpack formats: RAR, 7Z, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, ISO, ARJ;
  2. the ability to pack files into archives: RAR and ZIP;
  3. intuitive interface (by the way, archive icons stand out well against the background of other files);
  4. support for Russian characters;
  5. the ability to work with password-protected and encrypted archives;
  6. support for multiple processor cores (i.e. the archive will be created/deleted faster (with the appropriate CPU);
  7. opportunity APK installations files directly from archives (convenient for those who download large archives with games, editors, etc.).

Alternative conductors

ES Explorer

One of the most functional explorers that allows you to completely replace many built-in applications in Android. For example, you can use it to view photos, documents, listen to music, and open videos. More than 300 million downloads worldwide! It is rightfully considered one of best products in its segment.

Peculiarities:

File manager +

Application "file manager +" - screenshots from the developer

This application can completely replace the classic Explorer. Thanks to the simple and intuitive clear interface, it is very easy to use (addictive after just one day of use).

In terms of archives, it is, of course, not so “omnivorous”, but still - there is support for RAR and ZIP, which will allow you to work with most archives on the network. In addition, this conductor allows you to work with network storages data: Dropbox, Google Drive etc. Overall, a very worthy product!

Peculiarities:

  1. work with RAR and ZIP;
  2. support for a dozen multimedia formats (photos, videos, music, etc.);
  3. support for Dropbox, Google Drive and other similar services;
  4. allows you to conveniently manage files located: in the main phone memory; V cloud storage; on SD card; on USB devices (which you can);
  5. ability to work with documents: doc, ppt, pdf, and other formats;
  6. the ability to pause or delete the application;
  7. opportunity to connect to remote services(FTP, NAS);
  8. the ability to connect from a computer to your Android device via FTP and manage its files.

That's all for now. Additions are welcome...

Good luck!

How and with what to open a .rar file?

Despite the fact that the .rar format has long become integral part of Windows, Linux and many others operating systems, including MacOS and Android, for many people the automatic opening of the archive does not work double click with the mouse.

Archives on Windows

By Windows default It opens only zip archives, and to open .rar you will need to download an additional distribution.

WinRAR

This is the main application for working with .rar. Of all popular programs Only this one can create archives on Windows, while other software can only open them.

If WinRAR is installed on your computer, then to create an archive file, just click on the desktop right click mouse so that a menu appears asking you to create “ WinRAR Archive».

And to open .rar, you just need to click on this file and it will automatically be opened in WinRAR, if this program, again, is installed on the computer.

It also allows you to extract files from the archive. To do this, there is an “Extract” button on top panel.

Features of WinRAR are:

  • you can create an archive of no more than 8 GB in size;
  • you can add a password, email to the archive, split it into parts, block and
  • perform many other manipulations;
  • It is possible to correct archives that have been damaged.

7-Zip

This program copes well with the tasks of opening and unpacking archives in .rar format.

In addition to this format, it works with a huge number of other files - tar, gz, tb2, wim, 7z, but its main format is zip.

It is important to note that with 7-Zip and WinRAR installed, the user has the opportunity to create an archive in the 7-Zip interface, but WinRAR is still used.

Other features of 7-Zip:

  • Very high speed recording and unpacking;
  • have your own own format 7z, which experts say is better than zip;
  • The interface is very similar to WinRAR.

TUGZip

This program is not particularly known to many modern users. But it has many “nice” features.

Among them are the following:

  • there is an editor for self-extracting archives;
  • the program supports multi-archive arrays;
  • classic interface for archivers;
  • automatic check data safety.

TUGZip also supports great amount formats, even more than 7-Zip.

IZArc

The main feature of IZArc is that it works not only with archives, but also with disk images, that is, with files in iso format, mdf and so on.

Features of IZArc:

  • the ability to convert archives into disk images and vice versa;
  • more reliable methods encryption than previous programs (including AES);
  • support for multi-volume and self-extracting archives.

Overall, IZArc is a very good, reliable and free tool to open .rar files.

FreeArc

FreeArc is a completely free archiver with open source. Work with big amount filters and compression algorithms - 11 in total.

Judging by performance tests, FreeArc works at least 2 times faster than any other modern archiver.

Its huge advantage is the ability to connect to Total Commander and FAR. Its other features are:

  • it is possible to restore archives;
  • automatic sorting by size, creation date or other parameters;
  • ample opportunities for settings;
  • automatic archive integrity check after recording.

PeaZip

Another free archiver, which is also graphical shell for other archivers. It has its own unique archive format, .pea.

Supports a huge number of formats, including 7z, tar, gzip, xz, ace, chm and many others. It also has its own testing algorithm.

Hamster Free ZIP Archiver

An interesting product from Hamster Studio. Features a very non-standard interface and support large quantity archive formats (12 pieces) and files in general.

Has a set special functions to work with by email and disk images. Also supports Drag-n-Drop technology.

Allows you not only to open, but also to create archives.

Archives in Linux (Ubuntu)

Often in Linux distributions There is already a software package specifically designed for opening a .rar archive.

This is a set free editors archives, without the usual GUI.

You can activate them via command line by entering:

sudo apt-get install unrar p7zip-rar

Now in the file manager, when you right-click on a rar archive and select “Extract here,” the rar archive will be unpacked.

You can also use unrar x [archive name] to unpack.

Often, if an archive was created in Windows, when you try to open it in Ubuntu, the encoding in the file names gets lost (this is believed to be typical for the unrar-free and rar commands).

This editor does not allow you to view anything before unpacking, convert, or generally perform various operations without a terminal.

p7zip – this is exactly the same 7-Zip, only for Linux. p7zip has it full interface, a classic for archivers.

Developers are ideologists software It's open source, so all programs are free.

Here's one untested piece of advice from the forum: use in Ubuntu program 7zip for Windows.

An archive is simply one file in which other files are compressed to make it smaller. overall size. If you still sigh when you receive another file in a ZIP, RAR, 7-Zip or any other archive, then this article is for you.

For those who like to watch, I’m posting a video:

The easiest way to extract a ZIP archive

ZIP archives are regular files with the extension ".zip". In fact, you don’t need any programs to simply unzip files from ZIP; everything is already built into Windows Explorer 7/8/10. Just right-click on the file and select “Extract all...” from the menu.

A dialog box will appear where you will need to specify the path to unpack the files, or leave it as default (current folder). As you can see, in the example I have a “Checklist.zip” file with a zipped Word document.

If you leave the “Show extracted files” checkbox enabled, then at the end of the unzipping procedure, another Explorer window will open with a new folder open. Or you can not unpack the files at all, but go into the archive like a regular folder and open the desired file from there.

How to unpack RAR archive

Unfortunately, Explorer cannot work with RAR files. For them you need to install one of the programs that will be discussed. The free program 7-Zip has long established itself as a simple and free archiver. Can unpack files 7z, zip, rar and others.

Using the program is almost as simple, just right-click on the file and select one of the items from the “7-Zip” submenu:

  • “Unpack” – to open the extraction dialog
  • “Extract here” – to simply extract the files to the current directory
  • “Extract to “Folder Name” - extract files to a folder with the archive name (I recommend)

The simplest are the second and third options, because... do not require any further action. If you select the first option, the following dialog will appear:

Here we can specify our path for the files. If you select the “No paths” option, then all files from the archive will be in one heap, without subfolders. The “Overwrite” parameter is responsible for the mode of overwriting existing files. By default, the program will ask about each such file.

You can extract files not only from the right-click menu. If you double-click on the file, it will open in the 7-Zip program window. To unzip files, simply select them and click the "Extract" button

Alternative free method - Hamster Lite Archiver

I also want to introduce you to one newfangled program Hamster Lite Archiver. It's even simpler, free and has modern interface. After installing it, new items also appear in the Explorer context menu. To unpack rar archive or zip, right-click on it and select one of the options:

  • Extract files… - opens a dialog window
  • Extract Here – extracts files to current folder
  • Extract to “Folder name” - unzip to folder

Despite the fact that the context menu items are in English, the program itself is in Russian. Apparently we haven’t gotten around to translating these points yet, but by the time you read this article the situation may have already improved. The dialogue looks like this:

Universal program WinRAR

The WinRAR program is very widely used for working with RAR archives, I only use it. The program is possible. Look immediately for the Russian version in the list. Installing WinRAR It’s very easy, just click “Next” all the time. The program is paid, but with a trial period of 40 days. After graduation trial period WinRAR continues to work, but it starts to bother me with a window reminding me about the license every time I start it.

To unpack a RAR file, or any other archive, just right-click on the file and select one of the options:

  • Extract files... - the unpacking dialog will open
  • Extract to current folder – contents will appear in the current folder
  • Extract to "folder name" - unzip the contents into new folder with the archive name (I recommend)

The most simple options this is the second and third. If you select the first option, a dialog will appear in which you can specify the specific path where your files will be placed and a few more parameters:

Update Mode:

  • Extract with file replacement - if the folder already contains the same files as in the archive, then they will be replaced with new ones
  • Extract with file update is the same, but only older files will be replaced
  • Update only existing files– only the update will occur, the remaining files will not be extracted.

The “Overwrite mode” items are responsible for the behavior of the program when replacing existing files.

Using this dialog, you can unpack a damaged or incomplete archive. By default, if a file has an error, it will not be unpacked. If you check the “Leave damaged files on disk” checkbox, then the damaged archive will be partially unpacked. If it is a video or music, then it can be opened. But, of course, the completeness of the resulting file will depend on the degree of damage to the archive.

You can also unpack files from the window WinRAR programs. To do this, it is enough to select necessary files and click on any of the buttons: “Extract...” or “Master”.

WinRar will also help you organize a backup of your information.

Please note that after installing any of the listed programs, the standard “Extract...” menu item for ZIP archives may disappear from Windows Explorer.

How to unpack a multi-volume archive

Multi-volume archives are created to split one huge archive into several small ones. In this case, there will be numbers at the end of the file names, for example.z01, .z02, .z03 or part1, part2, part 3 or 001, 002, 003, etc. To unpack such a multi-volume archive you will need ALL the parts, otherwise nothing good will come of it. The unpacking process itself is no different from the usual one.

You just need to unzip the first file from the list in the usual way, and the rest will be picked up automatically.

If, in addition to the numbered parts, there is also a “regular” archive, then it is this file that needs to be unpacked, it is the main one.

Please note that multi-volume ZIP archives created by WinRAR can only be unpacked with the same program! Other programs give an error and even if you crack! And vice versa, WinRAR does not understand multi-volume files created by other programs.

Conclusions:

So, pull the files from zip archives, rar, 7z can be done using Windows Explorer (ZIP only) or using free programs 7-Zip and Hamster Lite Archiver, and also with the help paid program WinRAR. Choose a method that is convenient for you and use it for your health!

Imagine how grateful your friends will be if you share this information with them in in social networks! By the way, you can also create your own archives using these programs.

One of the most quality formats archiving in terms of compression ratio is 7z, which in this area can even compete with RAR. Let's find out which programs can be used to open and unpack 7z archives.

Almost all modern archivers can, if not create 7z objects, then at least view and unpack them. Let us dwell on the algorithm of actions for viewing content and unarchiving the specified format in the most popular archiver programs.

Method 1: 7-Zip

Let's start our description with the 7-Zip program, for which 7z is declared the “native” format. It was the developers of this program who created the format studied in this lesson.


If the 7-Zip program is installed on your computer by default to manipulate the 7z format, then to open the content it will be enough just to be in Windows Explorer , double click LMB by archive name.

If you need to unzip, then the algorithm of actions in 7-Zip will be slightly different.


The 7z object is unzipped into the folder indicated above.

If the user wants to unpack not the entire archived object, but individual files, then the algorithm of actions changes slightly.


Method 2: WinRAR

Popular WinRAR archiver also works with 7z, although for it this format and is not “native”.


As you can see, the algorithm for viewing content is very similar to the one that was used when working with 7-Zip.

Now let's find out how to extract 7z in WinRAR. There are several methods for performing this procedure.


There is also the possibility of instant unzipping without specifying any additional settings, including path. In this case, the extraction will be performed in the same directory where the archived object is located. To do this, press 7z RMB and select "Extract without confirmation". You can replace this manipulation with the combination Alt+W after selecting the object. All items will be immediately unzipped.

If you want to unzip not the entire archive, but certain files, then the algorithm of actions is almost exactly the same as for unarchiving the object as a whole. To do this, you should go inside the 7z object through the WinRAP interface and select the necessary elements. Then, depending on how you want to unpack, do one of the following:

  • Click "Extract...";
  • Select "Extract to the specified folder" in the context list;
  • Dial Alt+E;
  • In the context list, select "Extract without confirmation";
  • Dial Alt+W.

All further actions carry out following the same algorithm as for unzipping the archive as a whole. The specified files will be extracted either to the current directory or to the one you specify.

Method 3: IZArc

7z files can also be manipulated by a small and convenient utility IZArc.


To extract the content you need to do the following manipulation.


IZArc also has the ability to unpack individual elements of an archived object.


Method 4: Hamster Free ZIP Archiver

Another method to open 7z is to use Hamster Free ZIP Archiver.


You can do it differently.


The marked files will be extracted to the designated directory.

You can also unzip the archive as a whole.


There are more quick option unpack 7z completely.


Method 5: Total Commander

In addition to archivers, viewing and unpacking 7z content can be done using certain file managers. One such program is Total Commander.


In order to unzip the entire archive, perform the following manipulations.


If you need to extract only certain files, then we proceed differently.


As you can see, viewing and unpacking 7z archives supports a fairly large list modern archivers. We have only indicated the most famous of these applications. The same problem can be solved using certain file managers, in particular Total Commander.