How to open a .REV file online
No extra software to download or install.
Pick your .REV file
Drag it in or click to choose it. We read its contents list first, so it opens right away without unpacking everything.
Browse what's inside
See every file with its size, how much it's compressed and its date, and search by name across all the folders.
Preview or download
Click a file to preview text or images, or save just that one. Need everything? Download it all as a single ZIP.
About .REV files
What a .REV file is, and what's inside it.
A REV file is a WinRAR recovery volume; it holds Reed-Solomon parity data that can rebuild missing or damaged parts of a multi-volume RAR archive. You do not open or extract it directly; place all the .rar parts and .rev files in one folder, then let WinRAR repair or extract the set. The file carries no executable code.
Programs that open .REV files
| Full name | WinRAR Recovery Volume |
|---|---|
| Developer | Eugene Roshal / win.rar GmbH (RARLAB) |
| First released | WinRAR 3.x (recovery volumes; greatly improved in WinRAR 3.80, 2008) |
| Category | Archives |
| MIME type | application/x-rar-compressed |
| Signature | 52 61 72 21 1A 07 "Rar!" + 1A 07 - same RAR marker block as ordinary RAR volumes |
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Do I have to unpack the whole .REV file?
No. The viewer reads its table of contents first and only unpacks a file when you click it. That works even with multi-gigabyte archives, because we read just the bytes we need.
Can I open password-protected archives?
Yes, for ZIP (ZipCrypto and AES) and 7Z. You'll be asked for the password,. We can't recover forgotten passwords.
Is my .REV file uploaded anywhere?
No. The code that unpacks the file is downloaded once and then reused.
Why does a .docx or .apk open as an archive?
Because they are ZIP archives under the hood. Office documents, Android apps, Java programs and EPUB books all use ZIP as their container.
What about split archives (.001, .z01, .part1.rar)?
Multi-part archives need all their parts. Today you can open the first part to see the file list; joining parts is on our roadmap.
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