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As a result, some files that you find online or get as email attachments can be compressed into RAR files.

RAR files are useful if you want to reduce the size of multiple files before sending them. Think of it as a ZIP file but with a higher compression level. A typical RAR file consists of one or several compressed files combined into one. Just like ZIP files, which are actually a type of archive file, RAR files work similarly but offer more features. If you’ve downloaded an attachment or received a link to download the document in a RAR file, here’s how to open it on a Mac. While there are several apps in the App Store for the job, we chose one that is simple and easy to use to open RAR files on your Mac. So, you need a third-party application for your Mac to extract RAR files. macOS has a built-in archive tool, but that only works for ZIP files and a few other formats. However, Mac does not support opening RAR files natively. One of the drawbacks of note is the lack of its own interface which is why WinRAR is frequently downloaded onto Mac in conjunction with some other archiver.RAR files are quite common, especially if you download files from the internet. Or its RAR plugin is already built into an archiver and included in its price. Even if you download a third-party archiver, whose developers claim that it can create archives in the RAR format, you will have to download and install WinRAR separately to activate this function. No other archiver can do that (or rather it isn’t allowed by the RAR license). The biggest advantage of WinRAR for Mac OS X is the creation of RAR format archives. And it is this version the developers release the new archiver updates without delays in.

Nevertheless, WinRAR for Mac OS exists, and working with the command line requires some special knowledge. Which is very weird, since the system created by Apple - as well as many other products of that company - is focused first and foremost on making the interaction of users with the machines easy.

The developers allow the Mac users to work with RAR and UnRAR modules only from the command line. WinRAR for Mac OS X - as well as the Linux version - doesn’t have a GUI. WinRAR creators made sure the users of all the popular modern operating systems have their own version of the file archiver.