WinRAR is a data compression and decompression utility that lets you access and search archive files. Although many compressed archives contain only a handful of files, some archives contain many hundreds of thousands of files, requiring a search to locate files within them. WinRAR's search feature lets you quickly locate specific files with a search term across your entire hard drive.
Step 1
Open your archive in WinRAR.
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Step 2
Click "Tools," then "Find Files."
Step 3
Type a value in the "File name to find" box. This is a partial match of the name of the file you are looking for. You can use a wild card, such as "*.doc" to find all files of the ".doc" file type.
Step 4
Enter a text value stored within the document in the "String to Find" field. This is a slower search criteria that must search each file individually.
Step 5
Check "Match Case" to only include results that match the capitalization you selected.
Step 6
Click to select the path or hard drives you want to search in the "Disks and folders" option.
Step 7
Click to select the archive types you want to search using the "Archive types" option. For example, you can limit the search to "7zip" or "RAR" files.
Step 8
Check "Find in Subfolders" to search directories within the "Disks and folders" path.
Step 9
Check "Find in Archives" to search within archives.
Step 10
Click "OK" to begin your search.
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