

rar archives on your Mac, allowing you to just double-click on any rar file to extract it in the future. For example, if the rar file is in the ~/Downloads/ folder, that’s where the extracted rar file contents will be located as well.Īfter either Unarchiver or UnRarX has been run, it will now be associated with. The unrar’ed contents will be placed into the same directory as the rar file originated. UnRarX has a simple interface for extractions as well, but is limited to rar documents:

Download an app from the these link which can identify rar files, both apps are fine but we like UnArchiver for multi-use function.Once you download the app, opening and expanding rar files is similar to. You can download either, or both, they work essentially the same in OS X, and both being free it’s easy to try them out. UnRarX is predominately a rar application with par2 restoration abilities, whereas UnArchiver will open rar files and many other file formats as well.

The two unrar apps we’re discussing here the free UnArchiver or UnRarX tools.
