Consequently, you must acquire help from another software in order to open RAR files on Mac. They have Apple’s Archive Utility tool that is able to decompress a number of formats like ZIP, GZIP, TAR, etc but, it is not able to decompress RAR. Mac operating systems are specifically designed to decompress the compressed file formats. Mac can easily decompress the Zip files while it requires a different software to decompress the Rar files.
The most beneficial aspect of RAR files is that they feature strong AES-128 encryption and have higher compression ratios. Just like other compressed archive files, you need to decompress or unzip the rar files after downloading or receiving them. A single RAR file is hence small enough to transfer via mail or other sharing means. People use these rar files to lower the overall size and pack together several files and also folders into a single file. These are used in abundance on the Internet for high data transmission and sharing. Rar files are the second most common archive file formats, after Zip files. RAR basically stands for Roshal Archive Compressed.
