– Then make sure there’s a space (by typing on the SPACE-bar of your keyboard) – After downloading, open the Terminal app that is in the Utilities folder inside your Applications folder and drop the “rar” program file from the “rarosx” folder onto the terminal window. NOTE : if you want to be sure you get the latest version of RAR for MacOSX, go to this website to find it : – download WinRAR/RAR for MacOSX from the Roshal brothers’ website :
To repair damaged RAR-archive-files on MacOSX, do this : Slight down-side is that the utility doesn’t have a graphic interface (GUI) like most MacOSX-apps… it is a ‘command line only’ tool…
One interesting thing about WinRAR/RAR is that it is also capable of repairing corrupted RAR-archive-files. Their RAR & unRAR utility is called WinRAR (for Windows) or simply RAR (for all other platforms including MacOSX). RAR (which stands for Roshal ARchive) is a very popular file-compression that is developed and maintained by the Roshal brothers Eugene & Alexander. I have tried several unarchiver-applications, but they all end up telling me that the RAR-file is corrupted. I have some RAR-archive-files on my Mac that I would like to decompress/unarchive.
