One inherent weakness in WinRAR is its inability to handle long file names and directory structures. Attempting to extract long names from a business RAR file will ...

While downloading software applications for your business, you may encounter files that you cannot open. Some software developers and publishers use the RAR compression format to package large files ...

Similar to zip files, a RAR (Roshal Archive) file is a way to compress multiple files down into a single, high-quality container. Once you’ve downloaded or received RAR content, the only thing you ...

What you are describing is most certainly not the default behavior of winrar. When you use winrar and give it a path it will write directly to that location. This is easily verified with filemon.

If you need to send a set of files to another user via email or attach a link to a cloud drive, you might have to compress the folder containing files to send it. This is to save internet data, time, ...