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What is RapidShare?
RapidShare is a file hosting service, allowing users to upload, download and share files with each other.
The most common types of content available on RapidShare include software, games, movies, music, TV episodes and so on.
Access to files on RapidShare is available in two flavours, namely free and Premium.
» Download URLs
When it comes to downloading from RapidShare, you will be presented with either an individual or set of RapidShare download URLs, similar to:
http://rapidshare.com/files/1001/filename.part01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/1002/filename.part02.rarhttp://rapidshare.com/files/1003/filename.part03.rar
A set of URLs indicates that the content you’re looking to download has been split into multiple files. We won’t get into why content is split into files, but all you need to know is it’s very common and has its benefits.
Let’s say, for instance, a movie is contained within and split across the 3 RAR files available at the RapidShare URLs shown above. In order for you to watch the movie in its entirety, you must download all 3 files.
» RapidShare Free
Free users of RapidShare are faced with numerous limitations and restrictions, which can lead to frustration for those that wish to download from it regularly.
Limitations include:
- A wait period of approximately 2 minutes prior to the downloading of each file.
- Slow download speeds.
- Maximum of one download at a time.
- Inability to pause and resume file downloads.
» RapidShare Premium
The remedy to the aforementioned restrictions is to purchase a RapidShare Premium account.
Benefits include:
- Instant file downloads at full speed.
- Virtually unlimited downloading.
- Multiple file downloads at the same time.
- Ability to pause and resume partial file downloads.
- 500 GB personal file upload space.
Downloading a movie with a RapidShare Premium account takes as little as 15 minutes. The actual duration obviously dependant on the speed of your Internet connection.
Keeping these benefits in mind, RapidShare Premium accounts are very cost-effective and affordable in contrast to spending money on buying and renting CDs and DVDs.
Click here for Prices of RapidShare Premium accounts and to Purchase Your RapidShare Premium account.
How to Setup Your RapidShare Premium account
Congratulations on purchasing a RapidShare Premium account. We’ll be covering a couple of topics in this article, namely RapidShare phishing and the RapidShare Security Lock. We will also learn how to enable Direct Downloads.
» RapidShare phishing
You’ve most probably come across the word “phishing” before. The word is pronounced “fishing”.
Individuals, referred to as phishers, setup spoof webpages that resemble those of RapidShare in an attempt to dupe you (novice users) into entering your RapidShare username and password. This results in victims losing their accounts due to the phishers changing the passwords.
» RapidShare Security Lock
In order to counter this once growing trend, RapidShare introduced the Security Lock. This feature, which can be enabled once logged into your RapidShare Premium account in the Premium Zone, provides an added layer of security by sending you an email containing an unlock code. Enabling the Security Lock prevents deletion of any files you’ve uploaded and also prevents the account password and email address from being modified, thus deterring the phisher.
When the need to disable your Security Lock arises, simply copy the “Release-Code” sent to you via email and paste it in the textbox provided.
Just make sure the password of your RapidShare Premium account is not the same as that of your email account. A general rule of the thumb is, instead of using the same password for your accounts on various websites (Facebook, Gmail, Amazon), to instead, slightly vary/alter your passwords.
» Direct Downloads
Make your way to the Settings page in the Premium Zone. Scroll down to the “Configuration” sub-heading. Here, tick the box titled “Direct downloads, requested files are saved without redirection via RapidShare“. Having done that, scroll down and click the button titled “Save“.
Following this, don’t forget to enable your account’s Security Lock.
What this does is, rather than display a webpage with the “Download” button for each file you download from RapidShare, it instead skips this step altogether and directly prompts you the save the requested file on your computer. This is especially important when you get around to using software to manage your downloads, known conveniently as Download Managers, which is something we will be covering soon.
How to Extract RAR files
Click the Play icon below to watch the video, or alternatively, follow the instructions listed below.
Navigate to the location on your computer where you have saved the RAR files. -Select one of the RAR files by single-clicking on it. -Right-click on the file. This will display the context menu (right-click menu). -Select the option titled “Extract to name\“, where “name” is what the folder will be called. -If the archive is password-protected, as is often the case, you will be prompted to input the password. Enter the password in the text field and click the button titled “OK“.
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This creates the folder in the existing location and extracts all the files contained in the RAR archive into this folder.
Special thanks to Cøbra from wjunction forum for this helpful article!
