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RAR file becoming a .jpg picture?

I have seen a rar file under a .jpg extention

the weird thing is. when you double click the .jpg a picture shows up (that is normal)

but opening up the .jpg file with WinRAR.. and you would have a bunch of files ( the .jpg is an archive too!)

HOW DO YOU DO THAT?

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  • Jon W
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    Rar is an archive. A JPG is not!

    It is a single image.

    If a JPG was accidently named a RAR (or vise-versa) you should rename it.

  • 1 decade ago

    have you tried right click rar files are like zip files meaning they are compressed if you have compression software downloaded it will open it up like a normal file just when you try to use it.......it wont work because its compressed

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Thats impossible. rename it as .rar or something.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Or you can use freeware called 7zip.

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  • 1 decade ago

    o, ok

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