This is critically important for everyone and is shared for wide reach.

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    1 year ago

    7-zip supports just about every archive type (including rar files) and it’s Free Open Source Software.

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      7-Zip can sometimes fail at extracting multiparty RAR archives and some ZIP files. Its better to have both to be able to extract anything that you download. I can say this confidently as someone who is both an internet archivist and someone fairly advanced at data compression, archival and benchmarking that I have done for over a decade.