Rarrrr

[anderson3]

I feel like kind of a dope because I'm sure the answer is right infront of my face, but How do I use a rar file?
My tilt just (windows mobile 6) goes at them without any input, but my vista64 asks me what program I would like to use to open them.
I'm stuck.


oh yea, they are on an old hard drive a buddy gave me and some are music, some are apps, etc...

[glc]

You need to install Winrar or another archiving/dearchiving program that can handle .rar files.

[juppy]

If you just need to get the archives open, 7zip can do that, and it's free. It just can't go the other way and MAKE the RAR archives. Last I knew, Winrar wasn't free....maybe that's changed, but I thought they had a try before you buy type of deal.

[anderson3]

Great, thank you both.
I thought it would be that simple

[anderson3]

Success, 7zip did it for me, and it looks like I can use it to compress my goodies for backup. Yay!

[juppy]

Originally Posted by anderson3 Success, 7zip did it for me, and it looks like I can use it to compress my goodies for backup. Yay!

Yeah, if you use one of the other compression methods that it supports. Like I mentioned above, I don't think 7zip will compress to the RAR format (only uncompressing on that one). The 7Z compression format does a pretty good job though. Personally I like that one better than the normal ZIP format.