Repairing damaged compressed files with WinRAR

For work, entertainment or other needs, you may often download a large amount of information, program software, etc. from the Internet, and most of them are compressed files. Storage, must be decompressed before it can be used. However, sometimes, for various reasons, some of the compressed files have been accidentally damaged, which of course will be very annoying, especially for those important information materials that you have downloaded from the Internet to download or download from the Internet. Large program software. In fact, at this time, you don't have to rush to re-download, but you can try the compressed file repair function built into the decompression software WinRAR, maybe it can make those damaged compressed files come back to life.
WinRAR is an excellent decompression software, especially its built-in compressed file repair function. In many cases, this function can be used for some damaged compressed files.
1. First open the WinRAR main window, from the address bar to the directory where the damaged compressed file is located, select the damaged compressed file.
2. Use the mouse to click "Repair" on the WinRAR toolbar, and then select "Repair archiver" from the drop-down menu. At this time, WinRAR will pop up a dialog box to let you choose the path to repair the file.
3. After setting, click "OK" to confirm, WinRAR will start to repair the damaged compressed file, and will display the whole process of repair in the form of a dialog box.
4. Enter the storage directory of the repair file you set, you will find a compressed file named _reconst.rar or _reconst.zip, which is the file that WinRAR has fixed for you. Try to decompress it. If everything is ok, congratulations, your damaged zip file has been fixed!
It should be noted that WinRAR's built-in zip file repair function is not for all damaged zip files. Both are effective. For those compressed files with severe damage, WinRAR will become helpless, or it can only fix some files in the compressed package. In addition, another decompression software called Zipmagic also has a built-in repair function for damaged compressed files. Interested friends may wish to try.