• HeneryHawk@thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      On a very very rare occasion I’ve had to use it for scene cracks as other apps didn’t work. They use WinRAR to archive it so on those very rare occasions it’s the only thing that unpacks it

    • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I bought a lifetime license literally more than 20 years ago to support the developer. I use 7Zip for most stuff but prefer WinRAR for split rar archive support.

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      1 year ago

      That’s, quite ironically, a pretty ignorant opinion. There are areas where WinRAR is stronger than 7zip.

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        1 year ago

        The person you replied to never mentioned 7-Zip, and there’s forks and other programs that are probably just as strong in the same areas.

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          1 year ago

          “probably”

          The commenter implied that there’s a tool which is better than WinRAR in everything and therefore there can’t possibly be a reason to use WinRAR. Which application is it then?

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            1 year ago

            I’d need to know the areas you consider 7-Zip to be stronger in first, because I can’t think of anything myself.

            • severien@lemmy.world
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              As an example, RAR provides parity records which allows recovery of large amounts of compressed data in case of data corruption. 7zip can lose all its content if one bit is flipped.

              RAR provides much more support for underlying file system support which makes it more suitable as an archival tool. Things like NTFS hard links, streams, ACLs, all three timestamps. 7zip doesn’t support that.

              WinRAR in general has way more niche features for advanced use cases, while 7zip focuses on the basics.