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| Downloads:20,663 |
| Version Downloads:8,798 |
| Type:Utilities : Compression |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:27 Aug 2009 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $19.00 |
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http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33398/archiver
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Is $26.00 really worth the purchase of this app? Any helpful responses with Pros and Cons would be awesomely appreciated ;) Unarchiver
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It's presently $12 on the MacZot website, today, July 5, 09.
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iArchiver does the job well, feels Mac-like (excellent use of drag and drop, which makes it very easy to create archives spanning multiple directories) and, at last, forms a complete replacement for the remnants of Stuffit Expander still around and the occasional command line tools previously required for some formats. It also avoids the temptation to bombard the user with excessive configuration options and irrelevant statistics, which is a problem with most Windows-based archivers.
A couple of possible minor improvements:
1. Better feedback - if a password for an encrypted archive is entered incorrectly, it is simply asked for again with no indication that the first password was wrong;
2. Notwithstanding the previous remark about complexity, the engine appears not to support de-archiving of some of the more obscure ZIP and 7-zip options (particularly "solid archives" and some of the more recent of the half-dozen ZIP encryption schemes) as I occasionally have trouble decrypting archives created under Windows (PowerArchiver 2007 and 2009). No problem in the other direction.
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A reason to stay with an other utility, which does a lot more of things and provides a free quicklook plugin for all(!) kind of archives!!
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The about box says something about "The swiss army knife for archiving", but that's not true! iArchiver is much better than a swiss army knife. Swiss army knifes suck at archiving and iArchiver is an Austrian tool (thank god !).
iArchiver is THE Austrian Archiver.
My grandpa always said: "Never try to hide behind a swiss army knife, that doesn't help." Well, I think Crocodile Dundee would agree.
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Reno Raines reviewed on 28 Nov 2007
This makes working with archives really easy. No more worrying about downloading different tools for every different archive format.
I can never remember how to create those darn tar.gz archives for all my linux geek friends. Now I don't have to. iArchiver makes it as easy as creating a zip file!
Dowmloaded "DMGConverter". It only converts DMG to DMG.
Downloded iArchiver. Woo hoo! Does what I want.
Install, run.
Click the "convert" tab. Check.
Drag my archive (B19306_01.zip) onto the left-hand pane. Check.
Select "dmg" on the right hand side. Check.
(Hmmm. DMGConverter had a lot more options here, but that's ok - I can use DMGcoverter once it's in that form.)
Click the "GO!" button .... where's the "go" button? Double click? No ... menu item? no. Preferences? Well - these's this page of checkboxes. Maybe if I check "zip" and DMG" ... Hmm. The icon in the right-hand pane changes. But I don't see progress bars or anything ...
Nope. Give up. Maybe there'll be a reply to this. Maybe they'll do a Snow Leopard bug fix - if that's what it is.
Fellas - you forgot the "go" button.
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imac intel
10.5.6
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