I have recently replaced the hard drive in my computer.

During this work i have lost my copy of Winrar 4.01, and so i have now installed Winrar v 5.4.

I have always understood that using versions later then 4.01 can cause corruption in some iGO files.

Can anyone confirm that using version 5.4 will maintain file integrity.

Thankyou

All my files are arhived with latest version of winrar
Now im using 5.40 , no problem for now, i always check recovery data .. just in case

It's not a matter of archiving. Nor rarring nor unrarring corrupt files using winrar, whatever version.
It's closing a file again, after opening that file to make corrections/improvements, that handles winrar 4.20 (and higher) in a bad way. I am not sure about 4.01 but just in case, I use 3.8 (or 3.83?) to perform such operation.

katastrofe wrote:It's not a matter of archiving. Nor rarring nor unrarring corrupt files using winrar, whatever version.
It's closing a file again, after opening that file to make corrections/improvements, that handles winrar 4.20 (and higher) in a bad way. I am not sure about 4.01 but just in case, I use 3.8 (or 3.83?) to perform such operation.

FWIW, I totally agree. Winrar 5 [anything] can cause errors. Stick with 4.00 or as katastrofe says. Just do a Google search for your version choice.

If you are not modifying the file, any version of WinRAR is fine.

If you are modifying the file open it with Total Commander

Here is a copy for you:
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