A pop-out will appear. It's in the pop-out menu. If the RAR file is password-protected, you'll be prompted to enter the password before the files can be extracted. Open the extracted file s. For example, if the RAR file was in the Desktop folder, you'll find the extracted files there. Method 2. Open the StuffIt Expander website. Download StuffIt Expander. Install StuffIt Expander. Double-click the downloaded DMG file, click Agree when prompted, and wait for it to install.
You may be prompted to verify the software before you can install it. Open StuffIt Expander. Double-click the StuffIt Expander app icon to do so.
If prompted, click Open. Click Move to Applications Folder. Click StuffIt Expander. This menu item is in the top-left corner of the screen. Click Preferences….
You'll find it in the StuffIt Expander drop-down menu. Click the Advanced tab. It's at the top of the Preferences window. Scroll down and click RAR. You'll find this option in the middle of the window. Click Assign to StuffIt Expander. It's on the right side of the window. Close the window. Click the red button in the upper-left corner of the window to do so.
Double-click a RAR file. In the Applications folder. Get to it by opening the Finder and clicking "Applications. Not Helpful 5 Helpful 6. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. RAR folders don't always have files that you can open, though Unarchiver and StuffIt Expander will allow you to view the files.
Helpful 3 Not Helpful 0. Related wikiHows How to. How to. Note that Keka can create its own compressed archives, but does not support the RAR format.
Download: Keka Free. To extract a RAR file using the Terminal, you'll need to install something called Homebrew , which is an all-in-one tool for installing other tools. If you get a message saying that UnRAR needs to be built from source, such as the below:.
Don't know how to navigate the command line? Have a look at our beginner's guide to using the Mac Terminal first. Otherwise, the tool has many customizable options so your archives are extracted the way you want. One of its handy features is that it supports non-Latin characters for your archive file names.
This way, you can extract RAR files that have foreign characters in their names. Download : The Unarchiver Free.
If you extract RAR files on a regular basis, the above tools might feel inefficient for the task. Luckily, you can use Automator to automate the RAR extraction task. The Unarchiver will work in conjunction with Automator to create a folder action which decompresses all the files inside your RAR archives automatically. These tools work through your web browser and let you extract your files just like how your desktop programs do.
Extract Me is one such tool that helps you extract RAR and many other archive formats using a web browser. And you can use it from the command line -- just say 'open foo.
Note, that the Mac App Store version is much more annoying that the one from the website. It asks you for your permission every time when you extract an archive! Use the one from the official website. Great suggestion! The Unarchiver is good. Schweinepriester 3 2 2 bronze badges. How do I unrar to a specific directory — rocketspacer. CLI is good for programmer. But brew install rar provides an unrar tool. Show 2 more comments. Telemachus Telemachus 6, 1 1 gold badge 24 24 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges.
Nothing built-in if I'm not mistaken no access to a Mac now. Snark Snark Josh K Josh K It just said "contents could not be extracted with this program. The Unarchiver is set as my default, so much better then the built in BOM. Benjamin Schollnick Benjamin Schollnick 4, 15 15 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges.
Dan Rosenstark Dan Rosenstark 6, 12 12 gold badges 56 56 silver badges 93 93 bronze badges. Pathfinder is overkill if you are just extracting RAR files. Booting it up takes a while too. It's great for integration at the expense of Finder.
Josh K, this was true in , but now SSDs and bootup are much faster, at least. Pathfinder is still—in my opinion—overkill on a system. That's true Josh K, it's a hassle to start up, but I don't think the memory or processing footprint is significant. But this is an empirical question: what do you want to compare it to?
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