How to Restore Encrypted RAR Files?

Roshal Archive (RAR) is one of the most popular file container natively used by WinRAR app to save compressed data. This RAR archive is really very useful whenever we have to transfer large sized files over the network by minimizing overall size without any information loss. Once you unpack compressed RAR archive, you get all files in their original form. RAR files are useful not only for minimizing file size but also you can protect your confidential data by making these archives encrypted. Since RAR archives allow encryption, you can make them password protected and easily share over internet or save anywhere in your computer without any worry.

Although, file management seems very simple and secure with the use of RAR files but you may run into a serious problem when you find any of your important RAR file missing or deleted from your computer. You may lose encrypted RAR archives from your PC or any other storage device in following circumstances:

  • Often users delete encrypted RAR files mistakenly from their PC while removing unwanted files and folders
  • Many users do forget password that is required to decrypt RAR archive. If they don’t get success after several attempts they remove particular encrypted RAR file from their system hard drive
  • It is always suggested to keep removing files and folders from Downloaded folder. While emptying Download folder, user may delete encrypted RAR archives without copying them to another location
  • Viruses or Trojan can corrupt or hide an encrypted RAR file in your computer. Sometimes user may also delete encrypted RAR file when they cannot make it healthy or virus free
  • If you delete any encrypted RAR archive by using Shift + Delete command it will remove the file and you cannot find it in the Recycle Bin also

Encrypted RAR file recovery tool

Yodot File Recovery is the perfect tool for quick and secure encrypted RAR files recovery. This software has automated scanning function to locate and retrieve encrypted RAR archives which have lost or deleted from your computer hard drive under different data loss scenarios. Also it allows users to recover RAR and ZIP files, videos, music, pictures documents and other type files from hard drives, external hard disks, pen drives, memory cards, iPods, FireWire storage devices etc. With this tool you can recover encrypted files in Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2008 OS based machines. This is a read only, virus free file recovery app that doesn’t compromise with the information saved in recovered file.

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Easy procedure to restore encrypted RAR files!

  • Download Yodot File Recovery software in your Windows machine and complete installation process
  • Launch the application to explore the main window where you get file recovery options
  • In the main screen, you need to select either ‘Deleted File Recovery’ or ‘Lost File Recovery’ option to restore encrypted RAR files
  • In the next screen, select drive from where you have to restore encrypted RAR files
  • After selecting the drive, proceed to the next window to choose file types that needs to be restored
  • Now the software initiate the scanning process and displays all recovered files under “File Type” or “Data Type” mode
  • Select your required encrypted RAR archive and other files which you want to restore and save them to your desired destination location in your computer

Helpful Suggestions!

  • Save backup of encrypted RAR files to a safe storage location in your PC or to other external storage drive
  • Check twice before you delete any folder or file from your computer so that you can avoid deletion of any important RAR file
  • Install an efficient antivirus tool in your system to keep your encrypted RAR files secured from viruses

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