Data archiving is carried out in order to reduce their volume, that is, compression. This is done before sending them to another user via e-mail, or simply to increase the amount of free space on your computer's hard drive. The most popular archive formats today are zip, rar and 7z.
Instructions
Step 1
If you want to change the rar format, download and install the Winrar program, which has all the necessary functionality to solve such problems. If you want to change the file format from rar to zip, then you can do without third-party software here. Just select the file and enter the rename mode. Replace the rar extension with the zip extension.
Step 2
These two formats have similar archiving algorithms. So you don't have to worry about the integrity of the data in the archive. If you decide to change the rar format to something else, use (as mentioned above) Winrar. This program for the rar format will allow you to perform any actions on archives.
Step 3
To change the rar format, first unzip all its contents into a separate folder. Then launch the Winrar program, select the folder where you saved all the data and click "Archive". Then you can choose any archive format you like. In addition to Winrar, you can use other programs to work with various formats of archived data. The most popular of them are 7-Zip, IZArc, PeaZip.
Step 4
If you do not know how to open the rar format, then ask for advice from your friends or acquaintances who are well versed in this issue and can quickly help you. Use only licensed software that will allow you to quickly create archives of any format.
Step 5
The currently popular archive formats have their advantages and disadvantages. According to many experts, rar and zip are the best formats that provide the most efficient compression of archived data. They are also the oldest, since they were invented at the dawn of archiving technology.
