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How to Repair Corrupted RAR on Mac?

2012-09-01 12:20:16 / Posted by to PC Utilities Topic
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RAR is a file compression format in Mac and Windows system. Our files compressed into RAR format can reduce file size, and it is convenient to transfer the RAR files between two devices. Once you decompress the RAR file, it might provide you with the file is broken and you may not decompress RAR file.

Maybe the software itself has a problem or any other reasons that make you can't decompress your file. But it's correct that you simply lose your RAR documents. To avoid this, you should use Mac Data Recovery that can assist you undelete lost, deleted, corrupted rar files on Mac. Not only RAR files, this tool also supports other archives, including ZIP, SIT, SITX, BZip2, 7z. What's more It can also recover data from nearly all types of digital memories such as: SD/MMC card, CF card etc. accurately.

To make you understand how easy the program works, we have listed the detailed tutorial in the following content for your reference. You can click the below icon to install the free trial version on your Mac.

3 Steps to Recover Corrupted RAR Files on Mac

Step 1: Install and run this RAR File Recovery for Mac. You need to know don't install this app on the location where you lost your RAR files. After running, you will see the main screen as follow. According to the instruction to choose one recovery mode to get started.

Step 2: If you select "Lost File Recovery" you will get the following interface. Here pick the Logical Drives where you want to repair and press the "Scan" button to find the lost, deleted RAR files.

The default setting is to find all lost files from your logical drive, you can press the "Select File Kind" drop-down menu to choose a file type to start scanning.

Step 3: After a while, you will get many recoverable files on the list. This tool supports preview the files to determine whether you want to recover them. After decision, please hit the "Recover" button to save the recovered files on your computer. Then browse your Mac to set a location for your repaired RAR file.

On left top corner, you will see there are four buttons. The "Back" button lets you return the logical drives list to pick the drive again. The "Save Scan Info" lets you save the scan result. If you interested in the other recovery modes, you can also hit the "Home" button to try another modes.

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