One inherent weakness in WinRAR is its inability to handle long file names and directory structures. Attempting to extract long names from a business RAR file will ...

What you are describing is most certainly not the default behavior of winrar. When you use winrar and give it a path it will write directly to that location. This is easily verified with filemon.

Click the "Dash" icon. Type "terminal" (without quotes) in the search box. Click the "Terminal" application icon. Navigate to the folder containing the RAR archive you want to extract files from using ...

If you need to send a set of files to another user via email or attach a link to a cloud drive, you might have to compress the folder containing files to send it. This is to save internet data, time, ...