3/9/2023 0 Comments Unarchiver vs unrarx![]() My MacBook Pro is now with the latest 10.13 High Sierra, and I have to rely on third-party apps to extract RAR files. I was hoping Apple macOS could add this feature to its built-in Archive Utility app, unfortunately, it seems that Apple macOS team doesn’t plan to do this. Things have changed a lot when it comes to unrar apps for Mac. It’s been two years since I first published this post. ![]() Hi there, Thanks for reading this article. Meanwhile, I also tested dozens of other applications on my Mac, and filtered those that are 100% free and easy to use and you can read more below. Luckily, I managed to fix it with an amazing app called The Unarchiver, the best RAR extractor app for Mac. In fact, I also ran into the same problem when I switched from PC to Mac a few years ago. I’ve been there many times, since I use my MacBook Pro to communicate with others who are probably on a PC. Then you get a weird error on your Mac, because the file couldn’t be opened. rar file you downloaded on the Internet, or received from a colleague/friend via email. This procedure works for our libraries, but also for many other third party libraries and once is learnt it's a very simple procedure.WinZip is bar none, the most popular and useful file compression utility out there. In this case, please delete the originally downloaded file and rename the new one to match the other parts. For example "" - the download is corrupt and you redownload it again, MAC OS can rename the new downloaded file into "Piano (2).part05.rar" or something similar. Let's say that you are downloading a file. They are usually in 2 digit format, so, for instance, if you see just part01.rar, part02.rar, part04.rar, please download part03.rarģ) A file has been renamed because it was a duplicate of another one. Check if all the parts have been downloaded. If you see a weird file size on a part, delete the file and redownload it again.Ģ) A file is missing. All of them should have the same size, except the last one (which is usually smaller). To check if it's the problem check the file size of all the downloaded parts. If you get some kind of error message, it could be for three reasons.ġ) A file is corrupt. In this case right click on part01.rar and select "Extract here". While in Windows either WinRAR or 7Zip add a nice new menu when you right click on a RAR file. In UNRARX you can just open the first part01.rar file inside the application, and the files will be extracted automagically. Take all the files you have downloaded from the developer and place them in a new folder of your choice. NOTE: some other software have issues with the files:įor example The Unarchiver create strange folder names, Stuffit doesn't support multipart. So far, the best solutions for extracting multipart rar files and avoid problems, are the super handy UNRARX for Mac (their site is down, but you can find it on many other sites) and 7Zip or WinRAR for Windows. ![]() Now: there are tons of extractor software, but the problem is that many of them have 2 problems.ġ) they don't support multipart rar filesĢ) they create unnecessary subfolders which end in messing with the the developer's intended folder structure. Once you have download all the files you can use an extractor to extract the library properly. So with RAR we can package our 50 Gb library in smaller chunks of 2GB each. ![]() Also files bigger than 4GB can be tricky for some operating systems, extractors and so. Why can't just zip all the library in one single 50GB file? The reason is that a so big download is harder to download and if something goes bad during the download you have to download it again. It's not the only one, and there are more efficient and open source compressing algorithms, but RAR is the most famous. RAR is the most widespread system to package very big data in files of a certain specific size. Hello, my contribution here to clear some waters about the procedure for extracting libraries from multipart.
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