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The Rar preferences page is accessed by selecting Options, followed by Preferences and finally Archive from the main menu bar. Then click on the Rar tab at the top of the preferences dialog.

Internal UnRar

Just as Zip archives you can open Rar files as folders. If you wish to continue using your former application set this options to Use registry association.

Compression level

This is tradeoff between speed and size. If you set the compression level to none or a low value the operation will be faster, but the archive size bigger. The scale goes from 0 to 5, where 3 is the default value.

Archiver

If you have rar.exe installed Magellan Explorer can use it to add files to existing archives and make new ones. The Search button will automatically search all resources for the correct files.

Note: Please note that rar.exe is an independent application and need to be registered according to the license information if used beyond its evaluation period.

Show command line

You can choose wether you like the command line output to be displayed while adding or deleting files from an archive.

Modified time an date

You may specify which date Magellan Explorer should set on the archive when adding files.

Miscellaneous

Always install when double clicking Install.exe or Setup.exe

Today many applications are distributed in a Rar archive. The install feature makes it easy to setup such programs on your system by automatically extracting the archive to a temporary folder and starting the installer.

Default compression method

·	Solid - This mode causes the Rar archiver to merge all files in the archive to archive a better compression ratio. However, this will slow down the decompression and subsequent updates to the archive.

·	Multimedia - Use a compression method specifically geared towards compression multimedia content such as image, video and audio files.

·	Solid+MM - Use a combination of solid and multimedia compression methods.

·	Normal - Each file in the archive is compressed separately. This achieves slightly lower compression ratios, but offers better extraction and update performance.

Please consult the Rar documentation for more details.