WinRAR 7.10 Beta 1 released (opens in new tab)

(win-rar.com)

24 pointsNeuronaut1y ago11 comments

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ksec1y ago

In the good old days, we need RAR so we could split the file into multiple floppy disk, now simply known as the Save Icon. We also prefer it over zip simply due to better compression ratio. I wonder do we still need these trade offs or we could simply go back to Zip or other self extracting compression format. I don't think RAR is even natively supported on Mac.

o11c1y ago

.rar should be avoided since support in open-source extractors is rare (to my knowledge, the sole implementation comes from The-Unarchiver, `unar`). .7z is usually the way to go if not doing something fancy like casync.

joecool10291y ago

For compressing, but for uncompressing you can literally build unrar from source if you want, here's the source: https://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-7.1.1.tar.gz

I do want to point out that for transmitting compresed files 7z is fine, but as a longer term backup format rar has a lot of functionality that makes it convenient (built in verification, parity generation/repair, support for all the extended filesystem attributes)

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tommica1y ago

I've seen "arrow over cloud" icon as a save icon in one of the web apps we use, and I was deeply offended :( for so long it has been the floppy disk icon

atoav1y ago

7zip is the solution on Windows that works together with Keka on Mac. Keka also allows splitting, which can be useful as well.

cryptos1y ago

Since RAR and 7-zip is supported by Windows out of the box these days, I can not think of much scenarios where you would benefit from WinRAR in a way you'd be willing to spend money for. https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-11-finally-adds-support-f...

Numerlor1y ago

I still have to use 7zip because of how buggy the support in explorer is. And even if it was perfect it still can't handle encrypted archives

eimrine1y ago

WinRAR is way faster.

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