WinRAR 3.20 Final English

RAR – What’s new in the latest version

Version 3.20



1. Previous WinRAR and RAR versions stored only the file modification

  time and only in DOS FAT format with 2 seconds precision.

  While it was enough for FAT, modern file systems provide a higher

  precision. Now RAR format can preserve modification, creation and

  last access time with the precision up to 0.0000001 second.

  The following changes had been done to support this facility


Version 3.20

1. Previous WinRAR and RAR versions stored only the file modification

  time and only in DOS FAT format with 2 seconds precision.

  While it was enough for FAT, modern file systems provide a higher

  precision. Now RAR format can preserve modification, creation and

  last access time with the precision up to 0.0000001 second.

  The following changes had been done to support this facility:

a) new "Time" part of archiving dialog includes "File time to

  store"

  options controlling file time processing. Other time related

  options also had been moved from "Backup" to "Time" section;

b) new "Advanced" part of extraction dialog contains "File time"

  options allowing to select time fields to restore;

c) command line -ts switch chooses time fields to process

  and precision of these fields;

Time precision provided by ZIP format is not changed and equal

  to 2 seconds.

2. Changes in the extraction dialog:

a) extraction dialog has been split to "General" and "Advanced"

  parts;

b) "Display files in Explorer" option in "General" part

  instructs

  WinRAR to open Explorer window and display contents of

  destination folder when extraction is done;

c) "Save settings" button saves the current state of both parts

  ("General" and "Advanced"). Saved state will be used as

  the default when activating the dialog next time. WinRAR saves

  all options except the destination path;

d) "Advanced" part includes "File time" options allowing

  to

  select time fields to restore;

e) new "Set file security" option in "Advanced" part controls

  restoring of NTFS file security information. Previous versions

  always extracted this information.

3. It is possible to rename files inside of RAR archives.

  It can be done either with "Rename file" command in "Commands"

  menu or in the context menu displaying on the right mouse click.

  In the command line mode you may use ‘rn’ command for this

  purpose.

4. "Next volume" dialog allows to choose the disk or folder for

  a new volume. WinRAR displays this dialog when creating volumes

  on removable disks or if "Pause after each volume" option

  is switched on. Previous versions did not allow to modify

  the volume name here.

5. "Test" and "Convert" commands can be applied to archives

  directly from Explorer context menu. By default these menu

  items are disabled, but you may enable them in WinRAR

  "Settings/Integration/Context menu items…" dialog.

6. "Pause" item added to context menu displayed on the right mouse

  button click on WinRAR tray icon. So you may pause WinRAR minimized

  to tray and continue it without restoring WinRAR to normal window.

7. If one of SFX volumes is missing, SFX archive displays

  "Next volume" dialog proposing to browse for required volume.

8. WinRAR allows to resize the window containing results of "Find"

  command. It saves modified window dimensions and restores them

  when using "Find" next time.

9. Toolbar:

a) "Toolbars…" button in "Settings/General" activates

  the dialog

  allowing to turn on or off the main WinRAR toolbar, the additional

  small toolbar containing "Up one level" button and the address bar

  with path or archive information;

b) buttons may have a variable width. So few large button titles

  in localized versions will not increase the total toolbar size

  too much like it happened before;

c) if the width of buttons exceeds the width of toolbar,

  you may click on the small arrow at the right side of toolbar

  and choose hidden buttons from the menu.

10. Console RAR ‘lb’ and ‘vb’ commands list contents of archive

  in the bare mode – file names without any additional information.

11. WinRAR recognizes one more tar long file name extension

  designed to overcome 100 characters file name limit in tar archives.

12. Gzip archives contained zero in the file time field are processed

  correctly. Previous versions could display random date values

  for such archives.

13. Recovery volumes:

a) when creating recovery volumes, the required disk space

  is preallocated in the beginning of operation. It helps to

  minimize the disk fragmentation;

b) console RAR displays the operation percentage when creating

  recovery volumes or reconstructing missing or corrupt volumes.

14. If "Save file security" option is enabled, folders will be

  archived after files which they contain. It is necessary to avoid

  the situation when security attributes of just unpacked folder

  do not allow to extract files to it.

15. Optional description can be entered in "Add to favorite" dialog.

  If such description is available, WinRAR will display it

  in "Favorites" menu instead of folder or archive name.