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Real Talk: Why Convert?
They Only Use WinRAR
Not everyone lives in the terminal. RAR opens anywhere.
Recovery Records
RAR can add parity data. We don't, but your file stays RAR-ready.
Email Attachments
Some corporate mail filters hate .tar.gz. .rar slips through.
So You've Got a Tarball and Someone's Asking for a RAR
Happens more than you'd think. You're on a Mac or Linux machine, you tar.gz a folder to send to a client, and they email back: "Hey, can you send this as a RAR? WinRAR's the only thing IT lets us install." Or maybe you're dealing with legacy systems where RAR is just the default. Either way, you don't want to spin up a Windows VM or hunt down a random converter that's gonna watermark your files or ask for your email.
This tool does one thing: unpacks your .tar.gz, grabs everything inside, and repacks it as a standard .rar archive. No recompression loss – your files stay exactly as they were. The RAR format is solid, widely supported, and plays nice with Windows Explorer if you've got WinRAR or 7-Zip installed. Upload your tarball, hit the button, send the RAR. Five bucks says they won't even notice you switched formats.
Common Questions
Yep. .tgz is just shorthand for .tar.gz. We handle both.
Usually RAR compresses slightly better than Gzip, so maybe. But we're not promising miracles – sometimes it's a wash.
Gzip doesn't do passwords, so if it's encrypted it's probably a different format. For standard .tar.gz, no password – so you're good.