Forum: DAZ|Studio


Subject: rar. files..how to install?

wespose opened this issue on Mar 10, 2009 · 7 posts


wespose posted Tue, 10 March 2009 at 10:51 AM

Recently i've downloaded three or four freebies from here in the free section, linked to ShareCG. The content comes in a single rar. file. I have Poser 5 and the latest Daz studio. How do I use install these files and use them?


3DFineries posted Tue, 10 March 2009 at 11:02 AM

These are just .zip files with a .rar extension.  You should be able to use most programs to unzip them to your runtime. 
Hope it helped.

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mishamcm posted Tue, 10 March 2009 at 11:49 AM

.rar files aren't the same as .zip files, they're compressed by a different algorithm.  If the program you use to unzip (or if you use Windows native zIp support) doesn't support .rar, you can use the free program 7-zip


wespose posted Tue, 10 March 2009 at 2:52 PM

Will winzip in XP work ?


mishamcm posted Tue, 10 March 2009 at 3:59 PM

Give it a try -- I haven't used winzip since version 7 or so, so I don't know if they've added .rar support since then.


infinity10 posted Tue, 10 March 2009 at 10:41 PM

I use 7zip or IZarc freeware to unzip RAR archives.

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wespose posted Wed, 11 March 2009 at 10:27 AM

I downloaded 7zip so ill just use that , thanks guys!