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what the heck is a .rar file?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:22 am
by kimi_boo
I am finding some really cool brushes but they are coming in as rar files. The site is saying they are photoshop brushes but CS3 won't open them.

Can someone please enlighten me... :help:

Re: what the heck is a .rar file?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:27 am
by suzib
Kimi, it is a different type of compression file like zip. you need a special decompression program.
Here is a link to one
http://www.uberdownloads.com/unrar.html

edit: on further research winzip now has the capablility of opening rar files. you need to download the new version
http://www.winzip.com/prodpagewz.htm

Re: what the heck is a .rar file?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:33 am
by Inspeqtor
kimi,

WinZip will work with rar files. Perhaps another zip utility you have will also work with the rar files.

Re: what the heck is a .rar file?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:48 am
by sarch99
I used a nice little program called UnZipThemAll.

Re: what the heck is a .rar file?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:56 am
by kimi_boo
They want me to pay to upgrade winzip. :evil:
I am using the evaluation trial period version.

Sunny... I bookmarked yours. :thanks:

Re: what the heck is a .rar file?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:01 am
by ladybug
some one posted a free program to open them called newztools, i downloaded this and open my rar files with it. Sorry i do not know the address to it.

Re: what the heck is a .rar file?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:44 am
by sarch99
What I like about UnZipThemAll is that it sees all the compressed files in whatever folder you're using and processes all of them at once.

Re: what the heck is a .rar file?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:37 pm
by Inspeqtor

Re: what the heck is a .rar file?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:35 pm
by hukari
You can also use 7Zip. It's free.

Re: what the heck is a .rar file?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:49 pm
by kimi_boo
hukari wrote: You can also use 7Zip. It's free.


Reka, make sure you check out the brushes in this link. You must have them!
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3230