There are two common ways of squeezing large files into smaller sizes: ZIP and RAR. The ZIP format is much more common, but there are times when RAR works better, especially when the file is ...

so I downloaded this zip file of an mp4 movie (3.9GB) as a reward for a kickstarter a while ago but every time i tried to unzip it 'failed crc checks' so tried z-zip ( version 9.2 ) (which the ...

Earlier this year, we reported on Microsoft expanding its compression support in Windows 11 to include native RAR, 7-Zip, and other file formats that aren't your basic ZIP files. For those that have ...

Are you experiencing the Checksum error when trying to extract a RAR file using WinRAR? WinRAR is a popular file archiver tool for Windows with some great features ...

Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 will soon include native support for RAR files. This development marks a significant change, as it eliminates the requirement for users to rely on third-party ...

The file is named .RAR to make it look like you need a RAR utility to open it. Once WinRAR opens it it identifies it as a ZIP file. The write up doesn't fully describe the bug but it looks like an ...

As a file compression format, the 'RAR format', which has a higher compression rate than 'ZIP' and is one of the features that the file size can be reduced, is finally supported natively on Windows, ...