Comments on: RAR Joining for the Mac?

Question: RAR Joining for the Mac?

WCityMike — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:26:19 -0800

What Mac OS X application (or command-line utility) will join RAR files that come in the form filename.r01, filename.r02, etc.?

My understanding is that the method is a pretty old way of dealing with RAR archives nowadays, but there's still got to be some way to do it.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:33:20 -0800

UnRarX

By: mhz

mhz — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:34:19 -0800

I'm pretty sure StuffIt will do it, provided you open the one file that's got the .rar extension.

By: Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:35:34 -0800

BetterZip

By: unixrat

unixrat — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:53:04 -0800

Stuff It will

By: unSane

unSane — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:53:36 -0800

fuck Stuffit, seconding UnRarX

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:57:24 -0800

thirding UnRarX

By: mosk

mosk — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:57:59 -0800

I like MacPar deLuxe, which does both RAR and PAR files. And it's shareware/donationware.

By: lundman

lundman — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:59:47 -0800

to unrar... yeah StuffIt works, but slow and odd progress indicator. unrar from shell is faster. UnRarX even nicer.

and a few million other tools :)

By: mosk

mosk — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:59:52 -0800

Hmmm...re-reading your question, I now see that you are specifically asking about the .r01, .r02, etc. file names. Not sure if MacPar deLuxe supports those...

By: tdabbott

tdabbott — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:01:01 -0800

Last mention, UnRarX. No contest.

By: yesno

yesno — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:07:36 -0800

"The Unarchiver" is what I use for pretty much everything. It even handles zips better than the Finder (it can delete the orginal zip file after unarchiving). It does RARs fine.

By: yesno

yesno — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:09:28 -0800

The Unarchiver.

"Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats."

By: yesno

yesno — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:10:46 -0800

(And just dbl click on the .rar and it joins everything up properly from the .r01 etc.)

By: Addlepated

Addlepated — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:21:49 -0800

Split & Concat!

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:58:24 -0800

Use UnRarX.

By: kika

kika — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:59:07 -0800

UnRarX. And if none of the files have a .rar extension, just drop the lowest numbered one on the application icon.

By: DarkElf109

DarkElf109 — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:32:28 -0800

DO NOT use Split & Concat for .rxx files! It's a multi-part RAR archive, NOT a split file!

By: KimG

KimG — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:35:46 -0800

RAR expander is IMHO way better than UnrarX.

By: mphuie

mphuie — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:36:57 -0800

First of all you don't need to manually "join" r01, r02, r03 files.

They are only created by RAR when you specify the option "Split to Volumes, bytes".

All you need to do is open/uncompress the .RAR file and the rest of the files will be uncompressed automatically.

BTW, newer versions of RAR split files into

filename.part01.rar
filename.part02.rar

Same deal with these, just extract the first file and RAR will find the rest.

Also 2nding The Unarchiver for OS X.

By: mphuie

mphuie — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:39:30 -0800

Also FYI, make sure to extract from the 1st file. You may miss some files if you don't.

By: Friday

Friday — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:18:56 -0800

I'm thirding the unarchiver. I've tried stuffit as well, but the unarchiver is open source (and therefore free), and it also seemed to be faster than stuffit.

By: VirtualWolf

VirtualWolf — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:03:26 -0800

Fourthing The Unarchiver. It handles everything and means I don't have to use bloody StuffIt Expander.

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:15:52 -0800

Unarchiver doesn't handle .par files, which it renders it nearly useless for .rar files. I heartily recommend UnRarX, which, if you select the lowest-numbered (and usually smallest-sized) .par file, will first validate all files, repair them if necessary, then reconstitute the file in question from the .rar files.