Mac archive guides

How to open RAR files on a Mac, fix garbled file names in ZIP archives, create and extract split archives, and password-protect ZIP and 7Z, including what the built-in tools can do.

• How to open RAR files on a MacmacOS's built-in Archive Utility can't open RAR. Here is how to extract RAR and RAR5 archives on a Mac, including password-protected and multi-part RAR files, straight from the Finder right-click menu.
• Garbled file names when unzipping on a Mac? Here is whyZIP files made on Windows can show garbled Chinese, Japanese or Korean file names on a Mac because of file-name encoding. Why it happens and how to extract with the right names.
• How to split an archive on a Mac, and put it back togetherWhen a file is too big for email or cloud storage limits, split it into volumes. How to create split ZIP and 7Z archives on a Mac, extract .7z.001, .z01 and part1.rar sets, and split or join large files.
• How to password-protect a ZIP or 7Z on a MacWays to put a password on an archive on a Mac: the limits of zip -e in Terminal, ZipCrypto versus AES-256, encrypted 7Z archives that hide file names, and keeping passwords safe.