Download RAR files using Stuffit

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Crooked1

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I'm using my girlfriends mac and trying to download RAR files. I know nothing about computers but I don't have any problem with most files. If I click to download a zip file Stuffit comes up as the default to unarchive. Correct me if I'm wrong but Stuffit should work for RAR files as well right?
I would just change my preferences to Stuffit as the default for RAR's but I can't find it. I know this seems stupid and I am a total n00b but I can't find it anywhere (in my apps which is where I thought it would be.) Please help!

Sorry if this has been addressed in another thread, like I said, me=computer retarded.
 
StuffIt handles .rar files just fine (at least on my system)... even segmented (e.g., .r00, .r01, .r02, etc.) ones.

A right-click on the file in the Finder, "More" > "StuffIt" > "Expand" will uncompress rar files.
 
It seems to depend on which version you have. The new one includes a whole lot more than the last one.
 
Both versions 12 and 13 (2009) handled RAR files for me flawlessly.

I can't be tasked to remember as far back as version 11 right now... ;)
 
Either way: Totally the wrong forum to bloody ask questions. This forum is for guides on how to do stuff. So if you had a _solution_ to a problem and you think it might be useful for others, you can create a HOWTO-guide others can follow. Moved to System & Software.

Oh and: You don't "download" them, you unrar, unstuff (with StuffIt) or expand, extract or decode .rar-files. (After you've downloaded them from the 'net.)
 
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