Thanks to a suggestion from Bryan Veloso this weekend, I started using The Unarchiver, a small yet capable archive unpacker. It was designed to be a replacement for OS X’s BOMArchiveHelper.app and The Unarchiver exceeds what that could ever do, including support for Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and just about any other format you can get your hands on. Oh and it’s free (as in WordPress). Before The Unarchiver came around, I was pretty much limited to using the inferior UnRarX.
However, as the name implies, it only unarchives packages. If you want to create tarballs and other such files, you might opt for MacItBetter’s BetterZip. While it’s not free, it retains the GUI experience and keeps you from getting your hands dirty with commands like “tar cvzf file.tar.gz filedir”.
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I also started using this app the other day, makes for a nice change that having to rely on 2 or more apps to open different file types.
I like using RAR Expander, http://rarexpander.sourceforge.net/
But I’ll give this app a chance.
So this makes a good Stuffit Expander-replacement?
I’m in need of 7z-capabilities, which SE still lacks…
I too use RAR Expander. Workes well enough for me.
What’s wrong with Stuffit Expander? It’s free and it works.
@Josh: like I said, it lacks 7z-capabilities…
Nevermind the answer(s), I’m going to give this a try anyway :-P
The only problem with Unarchiver is that it can’t yet handle .rars that have been broken up into multiple parts. It also can’t handle when someone has password-protected the archive. Such capabilities are very important: That’s why I use UnRarX
Yeah I keep UnRarX around just for multiple rars. I learned that this morning.
One more comment on this neat little app, it cannot extract any encrypted files as far as I am concern.
Don’t decimate all your archiver app at this stage because you will need them. :) Looking forward for this app for it’s still under its very first phase.
Hmm The Unarchiver works just fine for me with multiple rars, although there is no progress bar!
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wayner, works for me I just tried it…
Hmm, this looks good. I’ll be sure to check it out.
Just installed it last week because I was tired of Stuffit telling me there was a new verion and having to go through a process other than a simple update download to get it. So far I like Unarchiver, but I’ve only used it a few times.
Zipeg is similar to Unarchiver and/or BetterZip. Freeware. My first Java app on Mac OS X. Criticism is appreciated.