RAR for Mac 6.24

October 10, 2023

RAR is a compression program offering an original algorithm. This new way to compress files provides greater efficiency, and makes smaller archives — especially on multimedia files and archives with many files. RAR also offers self-extracting capabilities as well as disk-spanning (or multi-volumes). RAR is the official RAR archive utility for OS X (offered as a command-line utility), especially useful while reading all those alt.binaries newsgroups.

To use the RAR command-line application, place the files in any folder on your hard drive, and call the utility by typing in the full path to the application (e.g., to run from the current directory, type “./rar” or “./unrar” followed by the appropriate parameters). Typing the application name (rar or unrar) without any parameters will produce a helpful guide to each program’s usage.

What’s New

Version 6.24:

New Features:

Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut selects the entire text in WinRAR comment window.
If -idn switch is used together with -t or -df in console RAR when archiving, it additionally disables "Deleting " or "Testing " messages, normally issued by these switches.
Also -idn disables folder creation messages when extracting a file to non-existing folder.
WinRAR and ZIP SFX module refuse to extract contents of ZIP SFX archives if ZIP central directory is resided after beginning of Authenticode digital signature. It is done to prevent possible attacks with inclusion of ZIP archive into signature body.

Bugs fixed:

"Convert archives" command could incorrectly convert Unicode comments in RAR archives.
If two archive information windows had been opened from the Explorer context menu, the compression ratio bar in the first window could erroneously display a value for the second archive.
It did not affect the ratio and other text details at the right of the window. Only the vertical bar at the left could be updated to a wrong value;
If the "Wait if other WinRAR copies are active" option was enabled in extraction dialog, "Waiting for another WinRAR copy" title was not set in command progress window while waiting;
When extracting a symbolic link, previous versions did not overwrite existing symbolic links even if the user requested it in overwrite prompt.