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WinRAR

Best Answer Peter1116 , 24 August 2017 - 07:58 AM

Check the download is complete. Check your winrar is fully installed and works on opening other files. Also there are a lot of programs which recover rar files (for example https://www.fi... Go to the full post »


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Hello.
 
I have a situation where the WinRAR program stopped working. I cannot open .rar format files. I get this error message: The .rar header is corrupt.
 
Any suggestions ideas would be great.

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:welcome:   alacasa32,

 

I have a situation where the WinRAR program stopped working. I cannot open .rar format files. I get this error message: The .rar header is corrupt.

 

 

 

If a program that you have used before stops working a common approach is to uninstall and then reinstall it, give this a try and let us know how you get on.


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Check the download is complete. Check your winrar is fully installed and works on opening other files. Also there are a lot of programs which recover rar files (for example https://www.fixtoolbox.com/rarfix.html)


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