How to set and remove password protection for RAR files?

php editor Youzi teaches you how to set and cancel the password protection of RAR files. RAR file password protection is an effective data security measure that ensures your files are protected from unauthorized access. When using RAR compression software, setting password protection can protect the privacy and security of files, while canceling password protection can facilitate file sharing and transfer. Next, we will explain in detail how to set and remove password protection in RAR files.

Let’s take WinRAR compression software as an example to see how to set it up.

When creating a compressed file, you can choose to set a password at the same time. Just select the files you want to compress, right-click and select the "Add to compressed files" option.

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In the compression dialog box, the default is RAR format. Click [Set Password] below and a new dialog box will appear. Enter the password and click [OK] to complete the setting.

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After setting, when opening any file in the compressed package, you will be prompted to enter a password to open it.

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If we no longer need password protection in the future, we can also remove the password. This way you don’t have to enter the password every time you open the file.

There is no option to directly cancel the password in WinRAR, so we must first re-decompress the compressed package before canceling the password. The specific operations are as follows:

Use WinRAR to open the compressed package, click [Extract to], select the decompressed saving path in the pop-up dialog box, and then click [OK].

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At this time, a password prompt box will appear. Enter the originally set password, click [OK], and the files in the compressed package will be saved to the path just selected.

Just recompress the decompressed file without setting a password.

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If your compressed package is in ZIP format, not RAR format, you can choose other compression software to directly cancel the password; after selecting the [Password] option in the tool, directly click [Clear Existing Password] and enter the originally set password. That’s it.

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Whether you decompress and recompress, or directly clear the password, you need to enter the original password, otherwise you will not be able to cancel.

If you don’t know or forget your password, we can use other tools, such as Pepsi Niu RAR password recovery tool. Use this tool to retrieve the password first, and then clear the password according to the method above.

Import the RAR file into the tool, select the method to retrieve the password, and click [Start].

Tool link: Pepsi Niu RAR password recovery tool

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