TGZ to TAR Converter

Convert TGZ to TAR online. See the real archive extraction and repackaging behavior, preservation limits, and a format-specific acceptance test.

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How TGZ turns into TAR: archive extraction and repackaging

The entries in TGZ are unpacked and a new TAR package is built from their filenames and folder paths. Compression is rebuilt; archive-level encryption, comments, and recovery records are not portable assumptions. TGZ is unwrapped from Gzip before TAR entries are enumerated, keeping outer-stream integrity separate from member paths, permissions, links, and checksums. TAR output writes a sequential member stream that can preserve Unix-oriented paths, permissions, and links but supplies no compression unless wrapped separately.

Read structure - A TAR folder stream compressed as one Gzip payload. Rebuilt structure - An uncompressed archive preserving a Unix-style folder tree, names, and file metadata.

INPUT MODEL

TGZ

TGZ archive format

Used for packaging files and folder structures.

Family: Archives
MIME: application/x-gtar

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OUTPUT MODEL

TAR

TAR archive format

Designed for packaging files and folder structures.

Family: Archives
MIME: application/x-tar

Checking the TAR result before you trust it

BEFORE

Record the TGZ evidence before conversion

Decompress and extract both layers, then compare paths, Unicode names, file counts, permissions, links, and checksums.

AFTER

Test the TAR file in its receiving workflow

List and extract the archive, then compare paths, link targets, permissions, and file counts.

What the TGZ source carries and the TAR output demands

TGZ

What can fail when TGZ archive format is interpreted

Gzip protects the TAR byte stream but does not independently validate each member, and non-Unix tools may alter permissions or links.

TAR

What TAR archive format cannot safely promise

TAR alone may be large, and permissions, symbolic links, or path conventions can behave differently off Unix.

ENGINE

How the TAR writer handles this route

The writer builds an uncompressed archive preserving a Unix-style folder tree, names, and file metadata and labels the result as application/x-tar. The receiving application - Not the extension alone - Is the final compatibility test.

The delivery decision for this TGZ to TAR route

Use TAR when the recipient's archive utility cannot reliably open TGZ, then validate the extracted tree rather than judging only the new package size.

What changes between the TGZ model and the TAR deliverable

The source stores a TAR folder stream compressed as one Gzip payload; the destination stores an uncompressed archive preserving a Unix-style folder tree, names, and file metadata. Compare application metadata after that structural change.
Metadata handling differs between TGZ and TAR; do not assume every application-specific field carries across untouched.