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The Unarchiver
The Unarchiver 2.7.1
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A replacement for the built-in unarchiver in OS X.   Free
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The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "Archive Utility.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X.

The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than Archive Utility, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats. It is localized into Japanese, German, Spanish, French,
What's New
Version 2.7.1:
  • Should run on 10.4 again, and maybe even 10.3.9. 2.7 accidentally broke compatibility with them.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later







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The Unarchiver User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 2.x:
(88)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
(126)

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burypromote

+1

hwangwd reviewed on 10 Jan 2012
A wanderful tool,very useful. I hope some new features, AES encrypt and file split options when packaging.
[Version 2.7.1]


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+5

Balanchine reviewed on 03 Dec 2011
Very useful. Was able to unzip an archive that had defeated Archive Utility, BetterZip and sArchiver.
[Version 2.7.1]


burypromote
+1

+3

Macinspore reviewed on 08 Oct 2011
Great app and it's free - used it for years now. What more could you ask for!
[Version 2.7.1]


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-1

-276
Smtips commented on 04 Oct 2011
Won't properly name a file you zip with a / in the name of it. Names the zipped file Archive.zip instead of the real name of the file.
[Version 2.7.1]


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Brentesc14 reviewed on 17 Sep 2011
Great app unarchives just about every single file and runs seamlessly with out getting in the way of your work, plus the fact that it does not use a GUI just to unarchive makes life a breeze when opening files. only complaint is that sometimes it slows down or it just wont open files (mostly .RAR files in general) but most of the time it works nice. over all i think this is a great app to replace your macs built in unarchiver.
[Version 2.7.1]


burypromote

-5

Salamurai reviewed on 01 Aug 2011
Beats the heck out of the built-in decompresser. Wish it could be brought to the front more easily (haven't checked that out in the new version I just downloaded).
[Version 2.7.1]

1 Reply

burypromote

+79
gatovadio replied on 06 Aug 2011
i hit the expose key for 'all windows' to bring it forth.
burypromote

-276
Smtips commented on 18 Jul 2011
The two iso's I've tried to mount with this didn't work, but worked fine with Disk Utility. It's a great program, but when it does try to mount the image it just sits there with a "Preparing to Extract..." dialog and the only way to get it off the screen is to force quit the finder. I'm not making a review here, but this is a most annoying thing, because you have to quit every running app then force quit the finder to get the finder to display again.
[Version 2.7.1]

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burypromote

-276
Smtips replied on 18 Jul 2011
Edit, can't even get out of it by force quitting the finder, have to completely log out and back in to stop the process.
burypromote
Circlesoft (developer) replied on 16 Aug 2011
If you have files that cause problems, please file a bug on the bug tracker, along with the file in question, so it can be investigated and fixed.
burypromote
+3

+160

Alexrom1000 reviewed on 13 Jul 2011
Simple and perfect utility.
[Version 2.7.1]


burypromote
+4

+13

Jean Eric reviewed on 22 Jun 2011
In my opinion, this free tool is the best between many other tools.

The interface is clean and kept very simple.

It can open many file formats and works very fast.
[Version 2.7.1]


burypromote
+1

+13

Ronl reviewed on 18 Jun 2011
Great app!
It was able to unzip a zipped folder that the 10.6.7 wasn't.
[Version 2.7.1]


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Arghwhymustiregister had trouble on 22 Jun 2011
Any idea how to make the app show up in the app switcher? (while it's working of course)

Would really like to switch to the progress window while it opens the rar files.

Any help appreciated - other than that i really like this app =) Thanks dev
[Version 2.7.1]


burypromote

+58
Aargl had trouble on 13 Jun 2011
I've adopted this utility a few months ago but today, extracting a .sit archive I've stuffed myself with the proper ware, I'm amazed to see it extracts only some folders, and worst of all, it mixes up folders and sub-folders as if they were at the same level!
And not even an error message!
I'm coming back right now to Stuffit, at least for its formats!
[Version 2.7.1]


burypromote

+35
Goldyn Chyld had trouble on 25 Apr 2011
Whenever I extract a .rar file (not sure about other formats right now), when it is about to finish extracting, it will stall for a couple of seconds and only then finally complete the task, open the folder and ditch the .rar file into Trash.

This wasn't the case in 2.6 though. Why is it like that in 2.7?
[Version 2.7]


burypromote

+10
Diogo Cocharro had trouble on 15 Nov 2010
Hi,
Unarchiver 2.6 is not working fine in my computer, in general with archives with password says that the file corrupted, I decompress with keka and works great.
[Version 2.6]

1 Reply

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Circlesoft (developer) replied on 25 Nov 2010
Please file a bug on the bug tracker, providing copies of some files that do not work, or else I can not do anything about it.
burypromote
+1

+10
Anung had trouble on 16 Jul 2010
version 2.5 failed to extract password protected rar with comma, dash, and dot.
[Version 2.5]

1 Reply

burypromote
+4
Circlesoft (developer) replied on 16 Jul 2010
Please file a bug on the bug tracker, and provide a copy of a file that shows the problem, so it can be tested and fixed.
burypromote
-4

-14
Richard Crapia had trouble on 30 Aug 2009
ok question some rar files i download require a password where do i put the password?
[Version 2.0.2]


burypromote
+1

-13
ptg701 had trouble on 29 Aug 2009
Seems to corrupt some widget files when unzipping them.
The same widgets are OK when decompressed with a different utility.
[Version 2.0.1]

1 Reply

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+8
Circlesoft (developer) replied on 30 Aug 2009
Please file a bug report along with files that have this problem, or else I can not fix it.
burypromote
-1

+1
Traspler had trouble on 23 Aug 2009
I stopped using The Unarchiver 1.6 when I noticed, that it screws up the permissions of the files it extracts. So whenever you extracted something, the permissions were changed :/
Is this different with version 2.0?
[Version 2.0]

2 Replies

burypromote
+3

+71
cottinghamk replied on 23 Aug 2009
Put in a bug report. If this is really the case, that fix would be useful for a lot of people.
burypromote
+7
Circlesoft (developer) replied on 23 Aug 2009
If you have an archive that has this problem, I would be very interested in seeing it. There's no known bug where permissions are not set correctly. There was a bug where strange permissions could cause archives to not extract at all, but that was fixed.

So if you can reproduce this problem, it would help a lot if you could file a report.
burypromote

+1
Josef K. had trouble on 26 Feb 2009
seems not to work properly with sitx archive (says content cannot be extracted but stuffit do extract it!)
[Version 1.6.1]

2 Replies

burypromote
+1

+30
fromage-head replied on 20 Mar 2009
sitx is proprietary format, only stuffit can open it
burypromote

+58
foofoorabbit replied on 16 Jun 2009
sitx is a proprietary format but StuffIt is not the only app that can open it. The Unarchiver 2.0 (alpha) can open sitx through reverse-engineering of at least some of the sitx compression algorithms.

If some of you want to play around with an even more powerful (but perhaps buggy) The Unarchiver, head over to the Google Code page for The Unarchiver link on the dev's webpage: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
burypromote
+1

+7
Nanobite had trouble on 03 Apr 2008
It works well with everything I've encountered so far except for password-protected .7z files. It chokes on them completely and gets stuck at the progress bar without even giving me a window to type in the password. Other than that, I haven't run into any trouble. For the moment, though, I've been using 7zX to deal with those problem files, and they work just fine.
[Version 1.6.1]



+1

Kharntiitar rated on 10 Jan 2012

[Version 2.7.1]




chillhase rated on 23 Dec 2011

[Version 2.7.1]




Ezaura rated on 11 Nov 2011

[Version 2.7.1]



+3

Aacuna4560 rated on 10 Nov 2011

[Version 2.7.1]



-13

Yasinsky rated on 28 Oct 2011

[Version 2.7.1]



+47

Snake-One rated on 26 Sep 2011

[Version 2.7.1]



-1

Cowgurt rated on 17 Jul 2011

[Version 2.7.1]



-1

Waveman rated on 07 Jul 2011

[Version 2.7.1]



+21

zitronenmelissa rated on 27 Jun 2011

[Version 2.7.1]




budaim rated on 04 May 2011

[Version 2.7.1]


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Type:Utilities : Compression
License:Free
Date:27 Apr 2011
Platform:PPC / Intel
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The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "Archive Utility.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X.

The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than Archive Utility, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats. It is localized into Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Portugese and Russian.
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