Archive and Backup File Recovery

3 Easy Ways to Repair Corrupt Archive Files

Read through to learn how to recover your archive files and folders easily and quickly. Do you know that it is possible to recover damaged Zip files like a breeze? Archives are files containing one or multiple data files. Most commonly used archives include Zip, RAR, Unix Tar, CAB archives, among others. They come in handy when copying and sending multiple files because they provide easier storage and portability. Archives also compress files, thereby enabling them to take less space....

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Why You Should Zip Your Files

Zipping is a compound term referring to compressing large files using any archive file format. ZIP is the most common archive file format and is therefore used to describe data compression with other formats such as RAR and TAR. This article looks at some of the reasons why zipping files is important. You've probably received an email with a .zip attachment, or downloaded a software file with a .zip extension. Most software developers choose to use zip archive format to compress...

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How to Create and Extract RAR Files in Windows 10

Archive files are types of files that are made after compressing one or more files and folders. This is occasioned by the need to reduce the size of the files or folders on disk space or for faster transfer. This article highlights how to use one of the most popular archive file formats, RAR files. Named after its Russian developer Eugene Roshal, Roshal Archive file format (abbreviated RAR) is one of the most used archive formats in Windows. RAR is one of the archives that supports lossless...

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