How to open a .DAR file online
No extra software to download or install.
Pick your .DAR file
Drag it in or click to choose it. We read its contents list first, so it opens right away without unpacking everything.
Browse what's inside
See every file with its size, how much it's compressed and its date, and search by name across all the folders.
Preview or download
Click a file to preview text or images, or save just that one. Need everything? Download it all as a single ZIP.
About .DAR files
What a .DAR file is, and what's inside it.
A DAR file is a Disk ARchive, a backup archive made by the open-source dar tool on Linux and other Unix systems. Open it with the dar command-line tool (dar -x archive_name) or the DarGUI front end. On Windows, use WSL2 with Ubuntu.
Programs that open .DAR files
| Full name | DAR Disk Archive |
|---|---|
| Developer | Denis Corbin (original author); community-maintained open source |
| First released | 2002 (first release) |
| Category | Archives |
| MIME type | application/x-dar |
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Do I have to unpack the whole .DAR file?
No. The viewer reads its table of contents first and only unpacks a file when you click it. That works even with multi-gigabyte archives, because we read just the bytes we need.
Can I open password-protected archives?
Yes, for ZIP (ZipCrypto and AES) and 7Z. You'll be asked for the password,. We can't recover forgotten passwords.
Is my .DAR file uploaded anywhere?
No. The code that unpacks the file is downloaded once and then reused.
Why does a .docx or .apk open as an archive?
Because they are ZIP archives under the hood. Office documents, Android apps, Java programs and EPUB books all use ZIP as their container.
What about split archives (.001, .z01, .part1.rar)?
Multi-part archives need all their parts. Today you can open the first part to see the file list; joining parts is on our roadmap.
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