WinRAR Archive options dialog


Archive options dialog

This dialog combines the following commands: , creating , . All they are supported only by .

Protecting an archive may help to it later in case of small physical damage of the archive data. If you wish to protect an archive from damage, you need to specify a size of the in percent to the total archive size. Maximum allowed value is 100%. If you set this field to 0, the recovery record will not be added. Larger recovery record allows to recover from more serious damages, but at the same time it increases archive size, so 3 - 5% is probably optimal.

The special case of archive protecting is generating . It is possible only if an opened archive is the first file in the sequence, in this case you just need to select the number of .rev files to create. You may also append a percent character to this parameter, in such case the number of creating .rev files will be equal to this percent taken from the total number of RAR volumes. Each recovery volume allows to reconstruct one missing volume file. You may read more about this feature .

If you set "Disable archive modifications" option, an archive will be locked. It means that WinRAR will not be able to modify such archive in future. You may lock important archives to prevent accidental modification by WinRAR.

Recovery volumes has a higher precedence than other options and cannot be combined with them. If you specified non-zero number of .rev files, WinRAR will ignore recovery record and archive lock parameters and will create recovery volumes.