Archive name andparameters dialog: general options
The dialog contains the following items:
Enter the name manually or press the "Browse" button to browsefor the archive name. You may enter a name containing a disk letteror the full path to the archive.
Opens the menu allowing tocreate new,organize andselectcompression profiles. Compressionprofiles allow you to quickly restore previously saved compressionoptions or to specify default options for this dialog. WinRAR providesa few predefined profiles optimized for creating e-mail attachments,backup files and other operations. Please see the topicCompression profiles for more information.
Select format of newly created archive. You can specifyRAR to use RAR 4.x compatible format,RAR5 for latest RAR 5.0 format orZIP to create ZIP archive.Depending on archive format selected, some advanced options not supportedby target format will be disabled. If you update an existing archive,this option is ignored and WinRAR uses the format of updating archive.
Choose between "Store", "Fastest", "Fast", "Normal", "Good" and "Best"methods. "Store" writes files to archive at maximum speed and withoutcompression. All following methods compress data, providing a highercompression ratio and lower speed when going from "Fastest" to "Best".
This is a size of memory area used to find and compress repeated patternsin processing data. Larger compression dictionary sometimes allows to improvethe compression ratio of big files, especially when creating asolid archive. But larger dictionaryalso decreases the compression speed and increases memory requirements.Compression needs about 6 times more memory than dictionary size.Decompression takes slightly more memory than just 1 dictionary size.If you expect yourRAR 5.0 archive to bedecompressed on all kinds of computers, including those with small memory,better avoid maximum dictionary sizes and select something in the middle,like 32 or 64 MB.
Maximum dictionary size for RAR 4.x archives is 4 MB. RAR 5.0 formatallows to create archives with up to 1 GB dictionary in 64 bit WinRARversion and up to 256 MB in 32 bit WinRAR (up to 128 MB in Windows XP x86).Decompression needs less memory than compression, so both 32 and 64 bitWinRAR can decompress archives with all dictionary sizes including 1 GBprovided that computer has more than 1 GB of available memory. ZIP formatdictionary size is fixed to 32 KB.
If you wish to create volumes, enter a size of single volume here.You can choose size units in the drop down list to the right of size field.In this list "B" means bytes, "KB" - kilobytes, "MB" - megabytes and "GB" - gigabytes.
It is allowed to enter decimal fractions using the decimal symboldefined in Windows regional settings.
Also it is possible to select units by appending one or two charactersto volume size string. Lowercase 'k' means kilobytes, uppercase 'K' -thousands of bytes, 'm' - megabytes, 'M' - millions of bytes,'g' - gigabytes, 'G' - billions (milliards) of bytes. "KB", "MB" and "GB"always mean kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes regardless of charactercase.
Volume size input field has the associated drop down list containingpreviously entered, predefined and defined by user values.You can use this list to quickly select any of items it contains.This list can be customized withDefine volume sizes dialog. To activate it press "Define volumesizes…" button inCompressionsettings dialog.
If you are archiving to removable disks and using RAR format, you mayselect "Autodetect" from the list and WinRAR will choose the volume sizeautomatically for each new volume.
Remove successfully archived source files.
Creates aself-extracting archive(exe file), which can be unpacked without using any other programs.You may select the type of SFX module and set a few other SFX parameterslike a destination folder in theAdvancedoptions of this dialog.
Creates asolid archive.Usually gives higher compression ratios, but applies some restrictions.Read the description ofsolid archives for more details.
Adds therecovery record, whichmay help to restore an archive in case of damage. You can specifythe recovery record size inAdvancedoptions of this dialog. Default value is 3% of total archive size.
Test files after archiving. This option is especially useful if"Delete files after archiving" is also enabled.In thiscase files will be deleted only if the archive had been successfullytested.
A locked archive cannot be modified by WinRAR. You may lock importantarchives to prevent accidental modification.
Set a password toencrypt archivedfiles. It is valid only during a single archiving operation and overridesthe default password entered inFile menu.If the default password is present, it will be restored after the archivingoperation is completed. If the default password was absent before startingarchiving, it also will be absent after finishing the operation.