Extract RAR Archive – Single or Multiple Files at the Same Time

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  • Updated on December 14th, 2023

Sometimes it may happen that you need to extract neither one nor two but multiple RAR archives at a time. You may spend a lot of time in extracting data from multiple RAR archives one by one. Even sometimes it requires a lot of manual efforts. In this article, I’m going to show you how you can extract RAR archive, i.e. single as well as multiple at a time.

Data Compression

Almost every computer user is using data compression in these days. It uses some potential encoding techniques in order to reduce the size of data needed for the storage or transferring of any sort of information. Though it reduces the size of your data, the original quality remains intact. If you’re using data compression, it may be lossless (exact) or lossy (inexact). If you’re using the lossless compression, you can reverse it to produce the original data. But in a case of lossy compression, it can lose detail or produce small errors during reversal. For text where every character is important, lossless compression is the best option. On the other hand, lossy compression is acceptable for images and audios.

RAR Archive File

RAR is a popular archive file format that uses data compression techniques. It can contain one or more files which are compressed with RAR compression. Unlike the typical ZIP compression, it provides you a higher compression ratio. It uses a proprietary compression algorithm which is now used by many other data compressors like 7ZIP to create 7z files. Though you may use a variety of programs to extract RAR file, WinRAR is the most popular one. By using this tool, you can create as well as extract RAR file.

How to extract RAR archive?

To extract RAR archive, you need to use the WinRAR tool. And before you can extract RAR archive, make sure it’s available on your system. After that, launch the WinRAR tool and follow the steps shown below:

Step 1: Go the File menu, and click Open. Also, you may press Ctrl + O.

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Step 2: On the Find archive window, locate the RAR archive file on your system. Click the file to select, and then click Open.

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Step 3: Now select the files which you want to extract from the RAR archive. Right-click them and select Extract to the specified folder in the options.

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Step 4: On the Extraction path and options window, browse a path where you want to extract your data. Click OK to start extracting the files.

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In this way, you can successfully extract RAR archive.

Now let’s see how to extract data from multiple RAR archives at a time. It’s very simple. Just follow the steps shown below:

Step 1: Open the WinRAR tool and select all the RAR archives which you want to extract.

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Then click Extract To icon.

Step 2: On the Extraction path and options window, browse a path where you want to extract your data.

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Step 3: The extraction process is being conducted on your system. Don’t cancel it.

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Once the process is successfully completed, you can check the extracted files.

Important note

If you encounter any sort of issue or error while extracting files from RAR archive, this means it’s corrupt. Though WinRAR tool has a built-in repair feature, it may fail or not work in a case of severe corruption. In such a situation, you must use a professional recovery solution. Download the free demo version of Archive Recovery software that can repair corrupt archive files and recover your maximum possible data from them. It supports all popular archive file formats, such as ZIP, RAR, TARTAR.Gz, and 7z. And you can select any number of archive files at a time to perform batch recovery. By using the demo version, you can scan corrupt archive files and check the preview of your data which you can actually recover from them. And if you’re satisfied with the results, then only you should purchase the software.

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About The Author:

Rohan Wiese is a Technical Writer at Aryson Technologies. He is an expert Email Forensic, Cloud Computing, and a passionate nerd with over 10 years of experience in technical content writing. He writes about Cloud Migration, Database Recovery, Email Backup, Windows, Mac, and Tech.

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