Surely on some occasion, Winrar has indicated that there are damaged files when opening a compressed file. Normally, these are unrecoverable but if the file has a recovery record we can recover part or all of the file. This record can be included when compressing a file .
How to repair a compressed file in WinRar?
To repair a compressed file , we will first need to open WinRar We navigate to the directory where the file is located and select it. Finally, click on the Repair button, which is shaped like a first-aid kit .
In the next screen we will have to choose where we will place the repaired file.
The recovery will begin and if everything has gone correctly we will have the repaired file in the folder we have chosen. In the case of continuing to have errors, we can try to save the files that are not damaged, in case they are useful to us.
Simply when extracting, we choose the option Keep damaged files With this the extraction of the entire compressed file will be carried out and we will be able to try to recover the damaged files, manually or with some specific repair software .
