Advice Request Is it easier for .zip and .rar files to get corrupted, Should I keep important files uncompressed?

[ItsReallyMe]

I have some files saved as .rar and .zip which are important, I am wondering if its easier for them to get corrupted and un readable after few years and do I need to keep them uncompressed?

 

[kC77]

zip/rar wont corrupt easier than any other filetype i guess, except obviously if you have 100 separate for example photos and 1 gets corrupt youve lost 1 photo
if you had all those 100 photos in 1 zip, and that zip somehow became corrupt, then yes thats lost

you could create recovery files using something like quickPar QuickPar for Windows which creates parity / recovery to protect against corruption etc.
(winrar has the option for inbuilt recovery i belive)

as long as you have healthy hard drives, and dont suffer frequent power outages and perform regular backups of these files, youll be fine.

 

[jogs]

Even if an archived file gets corrupted then also one can get back most of the files.
Also, like any other files these files also cannot just get corrupted on their own unless the the media they are in gets corrupted or there is some kind of problem during their transmission.
I personally have a few this kind of files for quite a long time and I have moved them from one place to another several time, and they are still okay.

 

[icarus]

I have some files saved as .rar and .zip which are important, I am wondering if its easier for them to get corrupted and un readable after few years and do I need to keep them uncompressed?

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