No, you do not need to crack them really.
You just need to go to command line options of WinRar and extract the RAR files which have the same password.
At times, you download so many RAR/Zip files from a single site and as some sites do password protect their files with the same kind of password, it becomes a pain in the a$$ to provide the same password to so many files that you have downloaded in a just a small time. The extraction takes more time than the time it required to download and sort those rar files. What we offer now is a quick solution for this kind of problem.
1. Go to command line by using Start->Run->Type ‘cmd’.
2. Press Enter. Now set the path to the Winrar installation directory in the environment variables by using SET PATH or if you are unaware of how to do so, there is another alternative to Set The Path as an Environment Variable in Windows XP and Windows 2000.
3. Now, drive yourself to the directory where your rar files are resting and How to Do that? Read the following steps.
- So, if your files exist in X drive and in a folder named ‘Archives’, just navigate to that particular folder in command prompt using the following commands:
- If you are in C: drive, and wish to navigate to some other drive, lets say X, then at C:\<some directory> type X: and press enter.
- You will be taken to X:\> drive where your archived folder is. Now, Go to that particular folder where you have the password protected Rar files. How to go to that particular folder? Read next step.
- So, you are in X:\> drive, now type “cd <rar files dir name>” without quotes and without < and >. And press Enter
- Now, you are in the folder where all your rar files are.
4. Now, type the following command at the command prompt: unrar x -ppassword *.rar
As an example, I have created the two archived and password protected files and they are placed in a folder named “RarTest” in G: drive.- Now, after navigating to the folder, I type the command like this(Note: The password of these two files is ‘nirvana’) and Press Enter
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And voila, the password being similar to both the archived files, gets applied while unraring.
5. The ‘x’ command instructs Winrar to extract the files in their respective(that is their own) folders, that is, a
directory for every rar file present.
6. The ‘-p’ switch(in the -ppassword) confirms WinRAR to use the same password.
7. Note: -ppassword is a single command. No spaces in between ‘-p’ and ‘password’. This password is your actual password to the archived files.
8. Then, at last, *.rar says to select all RAR files that are present in the same folder.
Sounds a bit difficult. But, its quite easy.
Try it and do let us know.
Oh thank you very much guys! I was looking for many hours to find a tool to do this and finally CMD gave the solution :p
Yes. We too were surprised when we got to know that our old dear Command Prompt would provide a solution for this.
thanks alot. i did exactly what you siad to do and the cmd promt destroyed the entire file. thanks for nothing.
Kenji, Thanks for the comment.
We do not post the information on the blog without checking it ourselves. We have tested this method exactly the same way as we have mentioned here and after seeing the results, posted it.
If you have corrupted the file after following the procedure, you might have missed some crucial point and BTW, command prompt can never alter the file contents until and unless you wish to do so.
Please notify us of the exact procedure what you have followed.
Hello,
could you explain the step more details because i don’t understand it.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your comment and can you please state which point you actually lost the track on so that we can explain it in more detail.
HI – I appreciate your post, however I am a little confused. my winrar program is in c:\program files\winrar
am i supposed to change directories to c:\program files\winrar, type set path then c d to where the rar files are (in this case g:\torrents\ and
then type in unrar x -ppassword *.rar afterwards?
it keeps saying rar is not recognized as a valid internal or external command gosh it has been years since I messed with the command prompt. I am quite rusty!
When I do this it says
CRC failed in file name (password incorrect ?)
Total errors: 1
Could you help me out please
@Kalyan: CRC failure happens when there is even a minor segment mismatch in the zip or rar file you have downloaded from the source.
You may need to download the zipped file again in order to apply this tip.
Hi,
Definitely this may work, but the problem is instructions are not so clear as you hv just touch & went by considering people are know how to do but if you can adv step by step it will really helpful.
Ex. Start>run> type cmd & enter
in cmd navigate to the rar program file by using cd command.
c:program files\winrar>
As above by step by step if you can explain by using examples. it will really helpful to understand.
Actually after i’m change to the directory to the rar program files, i have lost
C:\Program Files\Winrar>??????????
Appreciate if you can type the balance path for above question marks.
Pls spend a little from your valuable time to explain this in a beginners level
i have tried but i got the message ” unrar is not recognized as internal or external command,parable program of batch file”.
Hi,
In addition to the above seems to be the problem with your pint# 2
“2. Press Enter. Now set the path to the Winrar installation directory in the environment variables by using SET PATH.”
Pls explain above point 2. as this is seems to be not common & people don’t know how to do this.
After going through the net, i found that we can set path by using environment variables. so i just type the following & enter.
c:\path=c:\Program Files\WinRAR
I don’t know what was happened. but it didn’t gave me an error message.
So after i change to the folder where the rar file was (it was in d:\) & type
d:\unrar x -ppassword *.rar
it gives me a same error massage which “Kalyan” got above
“Encrypted file: CRC failed in access xxxxx.xx (password incorrect ?) Total errors: 1
(xxxxx.xx is my file name in side the rar archive)
The thing is i haven’t download it. just i created my existing file for testing purpose & it can extract in xp without a problem.
Also note, when i type my correct password followd by -p (d:\unrar x -p123 *.rar), i got all ok & file was extracted to the same folder.
So i think this command line is working only if we know the correct password. but you can’t use this trick as a crack, to extract zip/rar files which has been password protected.
If a rar or any archived file is password protected and you are not aware of the password, then it is virtually a difficult task to unrar it. But, there are some techniques like BruteForce when applied with appropriate and huge dictionaries provide some success rate.
And we need to remember that the passwords have to be weak in order to get cracked easily. If there is any numeric or special character in the password, that becomes one set of strongest password.
I have also included images and described the steps in detail. Hope that helps. Thanks for pointing it out to elaborate the post Sathika.
Hi,
Thanks……now it is Chrystal clear & anybody can understand who having a very basic knowledge.
Anyway this is useful for the knowledge. but i can’t understand the importance of this trick as this can be easily done in xp & you know the password.
But anyway i have learnt lot of new things, by trying to understand this with lesser expansion.(earlier)
Also really appriciate if you can teach us any trick, wher we can open pw protected archives other than using a software. as softwares are too slow & not practical as you hv mentioned above.
Thanks a lot.
Dear every thing is working in cmd but if the file is password protected not extract give me solution of this if u have i ll thanks full to u.
Wish I would have read this before deleting some 100 + files. It felt like a pain extracting with password for every archive, that I decided to go get it from the source. If only I read this.
Really usefull one! thanks so much!!
i found it quite handy thanks a lot it is realy helpful for rar like movies.
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Absolutely true Nitesh. If you have a lot number of rar files which are a part of the series, then it is wise to choose something of this sort to unrar them all at the same time.
The devs should really add this as a checkbox option of some sort.
BTW, RARmonkey does this in GUI form and is free.
yo? can you teach me how to do this? i got headache because of this.., pls chat me at my yahoo.. add me.. <> is my account ID.., pls., Teach me!
The entire process is self-explanatory. I suppose if you follow the instructions to the T, it’s hard to miss what’s happening.
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So i have a rar file which is password protected but i can see the contents of the file without having to type in a password.. is there any way by which i can extract the contents of the file and bypass the password protection