What is a ".rar" file?

[insomniak]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:09pm

I got something from megaupload and it's a ".rar" file, although the person who sent it to me sent it from iTunes. .rar files apparently don't copy into iTunes and I've never heard of them before. Does anyone know what's going on? It says that Windows doesn't even have a program to open the file.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:11pm

Its a file that is zipped with the winrar program, you'll need winrar to unzip it, which you can get from download.com...

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:11pm

A .rar file is like a .zip file. It can be opened with WinRar, which has a free trial download but it never disables itself so you can keep it forever and it will still work. I believe a .rar makes the file size smaller, otherwise I can't see the point of having it.

Just google WinRar Free Trial and you can download it. Winrar will unzip it and then you'll be able to access the music files and put them into iTunes or whatever.

EDIT: Fine. Cat wins.

Updated On: 5/9/06 at 03:11 PM

[insomniak]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:15pm

Wow, thanks.

*goes over to download.com*

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:15pm

Mwahahaha, thats what you get for your verbosity!

It does make the file smaller, also it groups the files together so you don't have to upload them to an upload site song by song...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:15pm

I believe a .rar makes the file size smaller, otherwise I can't see the point of having it.

Then how come they take longer to download?

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:17pm

.rar is like WinZip.

It takes a large number of files, combines them into one file.

It's more of a compresser...for when you send multiple files.

For example, you can only put one file on YSI. .Rar and .Zip allows you to combine multiple files into one folder-file and upload it to YSI.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:21pm

Except YSI sucks and everyone should use sendspace...

The end by Blucat500...

[insomniak]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:21pm

Ok, I've got them out. Thank you all very much.

At the risk of sounding dumb, if I delete the files that show up on my desktop, will I delete the whole thing? I'm putting them in My Music and I don't want them cluttering up the desktop.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:21pm

Yes, but Sendspace doesn't allow you to download more than one thing at a time.

Updated On: 5/9/06 at 03:21 PM

[insomniak]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:25pm

Ok. And I can ditch the desktop stuff too, right?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:25pm

No, you can delete the .rar file after it's extracted. You'll see the .rar and then a folder; the folder will have the individual files in it, and that's what you want to keep. The other thing will be empty and useless, just like a .zip folder.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:25pm

As long as you've successfully moved them into your music folder, then you can delete them off thedesktop...

Actually I like YSI for downloading, its uploading that it bothers me, halfway through it often ends up going page unavailable and then I grumble at it...but it doesn't help...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 3:26pm

Yikes, nia, I'm sorry. We keep missing each other's posts.

Yes, you can delete the files on your desktop, as well, as long as they aren't the mp3's themselves.

YSI freezes a lot when I upload, which is kind of a bitch. I like MU, but it doesn't work on Safari, so I have to open up Mozilla to use it.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:03pm

MU takes forever. And this add always pops up about dating woman - and it says what town I'm in. So it knows where I am. The town changed when I went home...freaky.

I don't need to see pictures of average chicks showing their less than average bazongas when I want to download a "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" recording.

Happened on my friend's computer, too.

Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:05pm

I'm certainly not a fan of the MegaUpload softcore porn, but I've found it's the most reliable site for uploading files. YSI and SendSpace tend to freeze on me, although it might have something to do with my mediocre connection.

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:13pm

And this add always pops up about dating woman - and it says what town I'm in. So it knows where I am. The town changed when I went home...freaky.

That happens to me too.

Also, my internet connection gets interrupted pretty frequently. Sometimes the downloads won't resume when I re-connect, so I have to start over. I hate it.

Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:17pm

The website determines where you are via your IP address.

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:17pm

Yeah that always pops up for me too. I'm always worried I'm gonna see someone I recognize on that.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:30pm

siamese - I knew that.

But I would hate to think that MegaUpload knows where I'm at. And I always click on the ad because it pops up at the worst times.

No wonder I'm always getting spammed. Damn softcore ugly girls with three breasts, four eyes, and no hair.

Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:33pm

Oh, ok. :) I agree that it's on the freaky side. I suppose even free bootlegs come at a cost.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:35pm

...Not that anyone is talking about free bootlegs...


Thats wrong...

In summation, who wants to give me some...

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:43pm

I keep seeing this lady who looks an awful lot like my chemistry teacher from last year.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:47pm

I think I saw Em.


(I would say I saw Cat...but then it wouldn't be a joke!) Updated On: 5/9/06 at 04:47 PM

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 4:59pm

Um...I got confused...I thought it was amazon.com...really...

It did let me buy a new Ipod accessory off of it though, I-buzz, I think it gives massages or something...