Fortunately there’s a fantastic, small and free app that does let you open RAR files. Unlike ZIP files, RAR files require software that doesn’t come included with macOS.

In order to get to those files and folders inside the RAR, you need to open it. It contains one or more files and/or folders that are all combined into one file – a RAR. If you compress multiple items at once, the compressed file is called Archive.zip. If you compress a single item, the compressed file has the name of the original item with the.zip extension.

On your Mac, do any of the following: Compress a file or folder: Control-click it or tap it using two fingers, then choose Compress from the shortcut menu.

And when you click one of the contents, the detail information will be listed on the right. Click the RAR file, and the contents inside will be listed in the middle of window. Click Add button of the menu bar to add your RAR files and your added RAR files will be listed on the left side of window.

Open RAR files and preview before decompressing.

OPTIONAL: Click blue 'Preview' button to open directly in the. Click the green 'Save' button on the individual files to save to your local drive. It will start the file extraction and list the contents of the rar file once complete. Drag and drop the rar file directly onto ezyZip. Click ' Select rar file to open ' to open the file chooser.

At it’s most basic usage, it requires no flags or anything fancy, just point it at a zip file and you’ll see a full list of the archives contents, the file size of each item within the archive, file count, total size of the zip, the read/write. The most informative for zips and perhaps the easiest to remember is the ‘zipinfo’ command. Viewing Zip Archive Contents with zip info. This guide will show you step by step how to open a RAR file in macOS.

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