Need program to extract tar files

**Colleen** · Mar 17th, 2008, 10:22 pm

If anyone knows a decent free program to extract tar files, please let me know.

**MikeDirnt** · Mar 18th, 2008, 1:41 am

i use tar only in unix, never try in windows.

anyway google is my friend.:lep-kiss:
http://www.7-zip.org/

**Colleen** · Mar 18th, 2008, 1:51 am

I have that, it won't extract tars, I found something else, via Google.

Open ZIP files, RAR files, CAB files, 7-Zip files and more - compress and extract with Alpha ZIP. Trial was good enough for now.

**MikeDirnt** · Mar 18th, 2008, 1:52 am

lol i type google, that one is at the top. so i thought its good and it mention can extrat tar?

**Colleen** · Mar 18th, 2008, 1:58 am

I have it, for some reason it won't do it, it says it doesn't support .tar files.

**uglyboy** · Mar 18th, 2008, 2:26 am

WinRAR opens TAR archives..

**nyunyu** · Mar 18th, 2008, 2:32 am

uglyboy, you beat me to it..
I was going to say WinRAR too!
Powerful compressor..
it even compressed the same file you would compress it with winzip with smaller size.

**Kaos** · Mar 18th, 2008, 7:21 am

I hate downloading things only to find out after downloading them all that its a tar instead of a zip file. Thanks for the tips guys!

**grim** · Mar 18th, 2008, 7:43 am

Currently I have 7-zip for such things, it does work

**iowadawg** · Mar 18th, 2008, 9:10 am

Originally Posted by GRIM

Currently I have 7-zip for such things, it does work

Same here!
Works better and faster than any other zip program I have tried.
And it is free.

**WikicyloN** · Mar 18th, 2008, 11:12 am

i use 7-zip for .ys and winrar/winzip for the others. I love free programs!

**webster13045** · Mar 18th, 2008, 11:13 am

i use winrar WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files

works great

**Colleen** · Mar 18th, 2008, 12:01 pm

I guess 7-zip just doesn't work for me for tar files then.

I couldn't fully restore my cpanel backups on a new server, it seems the tar file was corrupted, that could be why 7-zip would not open them. The other program did open them so I was able to manually restore my files.

**MikeDirnt** · Mar 18th, 2008, 5:49 pm

i suspect your tar files is zipped from an older version? i believe the 7-zip is the current one. anyway i personally user winrar. now i remember it can unzip all formats.

**Colleen** · Mar 18th, 2008, 5:53 pm

I have no idea what cpanel makes the tar's with to be honest.

**mudkipz** · Mar 20th, 2008, 1:55 am

Agreeing with the others, WinRAR does the trick.

**WikicyloN** · Mar 20th, 2008, 10:06 am

does 7z work for unzipping .tar files?

**MikeDirnt** · Mar 20th, 2008, 10:11 am

as mentioned by above and from website, it does

**WikicyloN** · Mar 20th, 2008, 10:31 am

can I use winrar to unzip anything?

**uglyboy** · Mar 20th, 2008, 3:10 pm

Pretty much.. I use it and haven't come across anything it wouldn't open for me.

* RAR
* ZIP
* CAB
* ARJ
* LZH
* TAR
* GZ and TAR.GZ
* BZ2 and TAR.BZ2
* ACE
* UUE
* JAR (Java Archive)
* ISO (ISO9660 - CD image)
* 7Z
* Z (Unix compress)

**WikicyloN** · Mar 20th, 2008, 3:41 pm

if I want a program to uncompress files, what should I use?

**Big Dan** · Mar 20th, 2008, 3:49 pm

Colleen did you ever get this extracted. If it's small enough email it to me, I'll extract it and repackage it as a zip. If it's too big I'll do it on my server and send you a zip download link.

**Colleen** · Mar 20th, 2008, 3:54 pm

Originally Posted by Big Fluffy Bunny

Colleen did you ever get this extracted. If it's small enough email it to me, I'll extract it and repackage it as a zip. If it's too big I'll do it on my server and send you a zip download link.

Thanks, yeah I found a free trial and got it open and was able to upload the rest of my files. I kinda like the free trial program, I might buy it when it expires.

So that's how bad my one week host was (I cancelled after a week or so)... that their backups were corrupted. :rolleyes-e: