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The Unarchiver
The Unarchiver 3.2
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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 3.2:
  • Added a workaround for a sandbox bug in Mac OS X that was causing extracted apps to not launch properly.
  • Added Polish, Spanish, Turkish, Latvian and Portugese translations.
  • Fixed opening folders in the Finder after extraction.
  • Fixed extraction of partial RAR files.
  • Fixed spurious warnings about resource forks for some Zip files.
  • Don't forget to also check out The Archive Browser!
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later



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The Unarchiver User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 3.x:
(35)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
(164)

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+22
Dgeo commented on 10 May 2012
This is my favourite tool in MacOSX to unarchive LHA and LZX formats. I really wish it could handle DMS images directly instead of converting them first to ADF.
[Version 3.2]

1 Reply

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Circlesoft (developer) replied on 10 May 2012
This is because DMS images may contain custom filesystems used by games, which can not be extracted, and because people may want to extract ADF images so they can run them in an emulator, rather than extract the contents.
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+4

Vendini reviewed on 10 May 2012
Simple, easy to use... simply the best!
[Version 3.2]


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-193

Sir-Sixty-Nine reviewed on 09 May 2012
you made it easy
[Version 3.2]


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Tayyab reviewed on 14 Apr 2012
What can I say other than Awesome...............
[Version 3.1.1]


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+3

+22

DirkTheMenace reviewed on 08 Apr 2012
Awesome unpacker. It handles everything I throw at it. Simple, effective and free.

Again awesome.
[Version 3.1.1]


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+3

+12

Rasputinsrevengereloadet reviewed on 07 Apr 2012
The Unarchiver is my main unarchiver tool for several years now, and I never had a complaint. What can I say more!
[Version 3.1.1]


burypromote
+5

+3

Hkim reviewed on 06 Apr 2012
This application runs perfectly in 10.6.8 for me. I have had no problems opening large .zip, .gar, .bin files, (etc) and have experienced none of the complaints that some have listed.
Considering that this is free, I am quite pleased with this app.
[Version 3.1.1]


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+3

+5

Thorvick reviewed on 06 Apr 2012
7z password-protected not handled properly. It doesn't offer you a password entry and then says the file is corrupted.
[Version 3.1.1]

1 Reply

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+135
gatovadio replied on 13 Apr 2012
this is well stated in formats page:
http://unarchiver.c3.cx/formats
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+3

+10

neimen reviewed on 05 Apr 2012
great app. if you've been looking for a mac app that can intelligently queue multiple RAR archives and decompress them one at a time, look no further. very fast and stable, in my experience.
[Version 3.1]


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-31

Dejmac reviewed on 03 Apr 2012
The best app on the market and in its "realm"!
[Version 3.1]


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Fronk74 had trouble on 08 Apr 2012
I downloaded two different zipped applications and i unarchived them with The Unarchiver. Both rendered useless after that. That means the apps do not start. I extracted the same archives with the original Apple Unarchiver that comes with Lion and they work?
[Version 3.1.1]

1 Reply

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Circlesoft (developer) replied on 09 Apr 2012
It is an OS X sandbox bug. Extracted apps will not work on the first launch, but should work after that.

If you have disabled quarantining, they might not work at all. Either enable it again, or try the legacy version which is not sandboxed.
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+45
Goldyn Chyld had trouble on 06 Apr 2012
Why does it no longer open the folder upon extracting it?
[Version 3.1]

1 Reply

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+1
Circlesoft (developer) replied on 06 Apr 2012
Bug, will be fixed in 3.2 hopefully.
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JosephAW had trouble on 03 Apr 2012
Please remove PPC in the requirements. Only works with Intel processor now. Even the legacy version.
[Version 3.1]

1 Reply

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JosephAW replied on 04 Apr 2012
Thank you.
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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]


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+79
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]


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+45
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]


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+12
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.
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+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

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+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]


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+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.

+22

DirkTheMenace rated on 08 Apr 2012

[Version 3.1.1]



+4

Wevah rated on 06 Apr 2012

[Version 3.1.1]



+6

Yusepe40 rated on 03 Apr 2012

[Version 3.1]



+80

Old_guy rated on 03 Apr 2012

[Version 3.1]



+6

Johnny-S.-B.-Rubin rated on 02 Apr 2012

[Version 3.1]



+1

Bsewall rated on 02 Apr 2012

[Version 3.0]



+2

ImCr rated on 28 Mar 2012

[Version 3.0]



+2

Kgx rated on 22 Mar 2012

[Version 3.0]



+56

Steeps Patrick rated on 22 Mar 2012

[Version 3.0]




Garzov rated on 22 Mar 2012

[Version 3.0]


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License:Free
Date:09 May 2012
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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