i dont understand winrar

[Frankie²]

why dont people use zip files
its easier to use and it looks 100x better

[Ad Bot]

[Demian]

why dont people use 7zip
its easier to use and looks however you want it to look

Matter of taste.

[Pandan]

.rar has a higher compression rate and is less prone to file corruption in trasnfer.

[Messes]

why dont people use 7zip
its easier to use and looks however you want it to look

Matter of taste.

and doesn't badger you about your trial license

[Bahamut]

why dont people use 7zip
its easier to use and looks however you want it to look

Matter of taste.

so much this

[fawkes..]

Winrar works well enough, I don't really see a reason to change from it.

[Night Fox]

7zip is my favorite, but peazip adds better looking icons

[gr8dayseth]

Because I want to.

[Overmind]

.rar has a higher compression rate and is less prone to file corruption in trasnfer.

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If you zip a movie, it will only halve in size. You can .rar like 11 movies and make it a lot smaller.

[dkamm65]

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If you zip a movie, it will only halve in size. You can .rar like 11 movies and make it a lot smaller.

Compression ratio depends very much on the type of file, and video compresses very poorly.

[Pecon]

Compression ratio depends very much on the type of file, and video compresses very poorly.

From experience I've seen extremely good compression ratios on video files when using rar archiving.

[dkamm65]

From experience I've seen extremely good compression ratios on video files when using rar archiving.

Amazing.

[Pandan]

Damn lol


RARs are good for compressible files like .exes and multiple folders.

[Demian]

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If you zip a movie, it will only halve in size. You can .rar like 11 movies and make it a lot smaller.

It all depends on the compression algorithms used. Videos also don't compress very well:


Compressing data isn't just taking the existing data and cramming it into smaller space with the only drawback of you needing to decompress the data before you can use it. It's much more complex than that.

Yes the .7z native compression algorithm actually made the file 4 MB larger.

[Overmind]

Compressing data isn't just taking the existing data and cramming it into smaller space with the only drawback of you needing to decompress the data before you can use it. It's much more complex than that.

Uhh, I never said it was?
Looking at the OP, I thought I needed to explain it to him like he was five. So I just used movies as an example. I know it depends on the types of files and the algorithms, but do you think the OP will understand any of that?

it looks 100x better

I don't think so.