Know if a rar file is password protected before downloading it

It is really frustrating to know that the rar file you downloaded is password protected ,and the owner wants you to download the pass from a survey site This is an exclusive trick from verified tricks ,get to know if a rar file is password protected or not

Till yet you might be referring to comments to ensure that the rar file you are going to download is password protected or not but using this simple trick you can easily know whether the file is password protected or not

Just follow these steps:

Make sure idm is installed

1. Begin downloading the rar file with idm
2. The moment download starts pause it
3. Then goto downloads>options as shown in the screenshot below

4.   And copy temporary storage link as shown below

     And close idm
5.  Now goto run (win key+r) and paste the temporary storage location you copied from idm and hit enter

6.  Then click DwnlData folder and locate your file here
7.  and open the folder ,you will see few blank files with no extension

8.  Rename the biggest file and add .rar to it

9.  finally open the archive and try to open its contents ,if it is password protected you will see the following

10.  you can download our password protected test file and test this

test.rar

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WinRAR v4.20 Full

WinRAR is a powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress up to 15 percent better than traditional ZIP-files. WinRAR's main features include strong compression, ability to process non-RAR archive formats, embedded file comments, encryption, ZIP compression and decompression, support for long filenames, Recovery of physically damaged archives, Multivolume archives, unicode support in archive filenames and support for self-extracting archives (SFX).

Additionally to complete support of RAR and ZIP WinRAR provides basic operations for 7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z files created by other tools.

Download :
WinRAR v4.20 Full

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How to Extract Broken Or Corrupted RAR or ZIP Files

The most used file compression software available on the planet are WinZIP and WinRAR. Due to their excellent compression capabilities, they are widely used for making compressed backup of important files and compressing data to store in a small amount of storage devices. But due to various reasons these compressed files gets corrupted and fails to decompress.
Some of the common errors being displayed while doing uncompression is as follows :

• "Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive"
• "This is not a valid win32 application' or 'Corrupt Zip file"
• "CRC Errors"

You can easily Extract the corrupt ZIP or RAR file if the compressed file is not heavily damage.

Follow the below steps to extract files:


Step 1: Right Click on the file, Select "Extract files" Option.

Step 2: Check the "KEEP BROKEN FILE" option from Below window and Click Ok

If there are any errors out, please ignore .. wait until the extract is complete

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