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RAR Expander 0.8.5-b3

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RAR Expander extracts the files contained in RAR archives. It supports both single and multi-part archives, and has support for password-protected archives as well. It uses the official unRAR library internally so it is fully compatible with archives produced by WinRAR.

RAR Expander also features AppleScript support, and includes a few useful example scripts for expanding multiple archives at once.

What's New

Version 0.8.5-b3:

Updated unrar core to latest version (v3.60).

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

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Parvenu51 commented on 25 Sep 2010

Back on Windows, I was a heavy user of Rar compression and a big fan of WinRar. This post shows how to use an Automator workflow with an applescript to tell the command line Rar executable above what to do: so you'll be able to simply right-click on any file or folder & create a RAR file. http://stuffforlife.blogspot.com/2009/03/data-compression-in-mac-os-x-how-to.html

[Version 0.8.5b3]

mithrawept commented on 26 Apr 2009

Quick, efficient and fast. A great app. It does one thing but does that one thing well. Ignote stuffit, RAR instead!

[Version 0.8.5b3]

+22

coolmemin reviewed on 06 Jun 2008

I second the review. Stuffit failed on some files and this did the job. Goodbye Stuffit Expander and hello RAR Expander :)

[Version 0.8.5b3]

+10

sweetblue reviewed on 01 Jun 2007

Worked where Stuffit didn't. Simple as that.

[Version 0.8.5b3]

-1

Wings commented on 05 Aug 2006

What I want is an RAR expander that can tolerate a missing RAR file and STILL expand what is there, rather than quitting and just giving up. Sometimes I find a movie file or music file that's been RAR'ed but for some reason is missing 1 or more segments (newsgroups are infamous for this), and I'd like to see or hear whatever is available in the RARs.

Do it, and I'd pay for it.

[Version 0.8.5b2]

4 Replies

Errorr replied on 05 Aug 2006

I think the -kb switch (keep broken) of unrar does that. Most UI front ends of unrar, such as unrarx, have that option.

Wings replied on 25 Aug 2006

Thanks Errorr, but I've tried that.

-33

Dom21 replied on 03 Nov 2008

Ajoiner will do it.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19590/ajoiner

+21

Leif Heflin replied on 04 May 2010

If there were any par2 files with the rar you could rebuild the missing pieces (if there aren't too many).

macinspore commented on 04 Aug 2006

Stuffit Expander IS *NOT* a reliable RAR expansion tool. It has failed decompress RAR files for me and my clients years.

Having dealt with the whole Stuffit line for a decade or so (yeah I'm a old Mac guy) I have found it can produce corrupt archives, leading to costly re-production of projects.

Instances of corrupted stuffit archives are common to the Mac community.

New Stuffit products often cannot open stuffit archives produced by older versions of Stuffit.

I maintain an old OS 7, OS 8 and OS 9 Macs (with comparable OLD versions of stuffit) for the purpose of opening old stuffit archives.

Surely a company that has proprietary ownership of the Stuffit format(s) could a least maintain a commercial product that that can can Open ALL the crazy formats they have produced over the years.

Finally a warning: ZIP, RAR, GZIP and the many other loss-less compression formats should never be run though stuffit ONLY perhaps if a tested uncorrupted backup exits, the likelihood of corruption of by stuffit, of these open compression formats is extremely high.

I look forward to any comments from the current and past developers of stuffit - they have a lot too answer for.

[Version 0.8.5b2]

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macmuser replied on 09 Sep 2006

Remember good old Compactor Pro or Disk Doubler?

The good old days, eh?

macinspore commented on 04 Aug 2006

There also is "SimplyRAR" a UB app that also does a sweet job of expanding RAR files.

[Version 0.8.5b2]

jackmhlin reviewed on 28 Jun 2006

RAR Expander is a nice application. It helpes me deal with the expansion of lots of RAR files. Quite stable and easy to use.

[Version 0.8.4]

zws commented on 27 Jun 2006

There is no need for this, the latest (beta) version of stuffit expander (which is free) takes care of rar files well. the password issue is no longer a problem either. it also auto-quits and is tiny.

[Version 0.8.4]

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JetFireDX replied on 17 Jul 2006

There IS a need for this. I have had nothing but problems with Stuffit since it hit version 10. Zip files that will open in 9 refused to open in 10. 10 for no explicable reason would decide to set some option where it phones home and would not run until you were able to connect to the internet so it could do so and the program would start so that you could change the preference again.

RAR Expander is a great tool. If you are like me and don't care to have Stuffit installed for whatever reason, RAR Expander is great for when you have the need to decompress a RAR file. (Today I had the need to do just that with a file a friend sent to me and where Simply RAR failed to show me any files in the archive, RAR Expander expanded it without any problem. Great program devs...please keep working on it.

macinspore replied on 04 Aug 2006

ZACHWS: Your quite obviously new to computers or Mac's Specifically.

More than one Application Development Project with a similar objective is very good for the platform and computing in general.

Along to your lines of thinking Windows NT has existed for lots of years - why continue to develop the Mac OS??? According too your thinking this would be duplication of effort.

RAR Expander(580 K) StuffIt Expander (32MB) Which is smaller??