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DESCRIPTION
BetterZip lets you quickly inspect archives without first extracting their contents.
- Extract Only Files You Really Need: If you only need a few files or folders from a larger archive, you don't have to extract the whole thing. Simply drag the files you need from the BetterZip window to any Finder window or the desktop.
- Open Archives Without Extracting: Not only can BetterZip open archives without first extracting them but you can also search for a file using the iTunes-like interface. BetterZip can open and extract archives with the most common formats: ZIP, SIT, TAR, GZip, BZip2, RAR, 7-Zip, CPIO, ARJ, LZH/LHA, JAR, WAR, CAB, ISO, CHM, RPM, DEB, NSIS, BIN, HQX, DD.
- Create Archives: Simply drag files and folders from your hard drives, disks, or network places into your new zip file. You no longer have to copy all the files into a temporary folder first. The supported formats are ZIP, TAR, GZip and BZip2 compressed TAR, 7-ZIP, and RAR (using the external RAR commandline tool). Large archives can also be split.
- Protect Your Data: BetterZip can protect your data with a password and create WinZip compatible AES-256 encrypted archives. 7-zip and rar archives can also be protected.
- Update Archives: Add new or updated files to existing archives. Remove any file or folder from an archive, or even move files around inside the archive as if it were a normal folder.
- Make Archives Compatible: Strip Mac specific files and resource forks from archives for best compatibility with systems like Windows or Linux.
- BetterZip Speaks Seven Languages: BetterZip includes English, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish localizations, each with a complete translation of the documentation.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.8.3:
- TAR archives couldn't be opened reliably on Mac OS X 10.6.
- Header encryption was dropped when re-saving a header encrypted archive.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| BetterZip User Reviews (49 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Mar 4 2010 |
TEKL Be careful when extracting multiple archives at once. BetterZip can't do that properly. In this case you have to use The Unarchiver or the included Unarchiver from OS X.
(Version 1.8.3) | |
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| Feb 11 2010 |
GECCOH BetterZip is a wonderful and essential file compression manager. I have not come across any compression types that it cannot handle, and love its flexibility. If I was pressed to make a suggestion on how to improve it, I'd ask the developer to add the work progress percentage bar to the dock icon, so you can tell at a glance an operation's progress. Also it would be nice if there where more control-click menu options (customizable in preferences).
(Version 1.8.3) | |
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 | Feb 13 2010 |
ROBERT (MACITBETTER) I'll add the percentage indicator to my to-do list - it's a good idea. Can you be more specific about the control-click menu? Do you mean the one in the Finder or in BetterZip? What other commands would you like to see there?
(Version 1.8.3) | |
| Feb 13 2010 |
GECCOH I was referring to the Finder's control-click menus. If you could add commands like "Create Zip from selected", "Unzip here", "Verify", etc.
(Version 1.8.3) | |
| Feb 16 2010 |
ROBERT (MACITBETTER) Well, I do have this on my to-do list, with a high priority actually, but unfortunately Apple has removed the option to add contextual menu items to the Finder for 3rd party developers. Anyway, I am trying to find a way around this limitation.
(Version 1.8.3) | |
| Mar 6 2010 |
ZANGIEF There are actually a number of ways to do this from what I've seen; in fact, one can simply make an Automator workflow and drop it in a certain Services folder to have it appear in the Finder's context menu. With that in mind, it may sound limiting, but considering that you can run a shell script or AppleScript from an Automator workflow this actually makes things very easy, and even lets users make their own.
(Version 1.8.3) | |
| Nov 18 2009 |
PERSEP It doesn't have a "Verify" file integrity option, so you have to extract the whole file to check it doesn't have any errors
(Version 1.8.3) | |
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 | Sep 7 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND I don't know who to thank: BetterZip or Snow Leopard, but in this latest version I was able to unrar and join my multi-part archives without having to use a separate joining app. Normally I use Machacha or Ajoiner, but I haven't installed either one on Snow Leopard and my files still joined together quickly and smoothly -- even the files with passwords. What a wonderful surprise! Thanks, Robert/MacItBetter and Apple! Nice work.
(Version 1.8.2) | |
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 | Sep 4 2009 |
FUHAYER yes, it was multi-part archive with single file inside around 3GB size. i have sent e-mail for this for your reference. thanks for your kind interest.
(Version 1.8.2) | |
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| Sep 3 2009 |
FUHAYER when i try to open a huge rar archive it asks for a password though archive does not have a password. i can open archive under windows without problem without password but this asks for a password. reason ? or what password should i enter to see the part of files in archive ?
(Version 1.8.2) | |
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| Sep 4 2009 |
ROBERT (MACITBETTER) Is this a multi-part archive? Is any part missing? Please contact me by e-mail or through the support forum http://macitbetter.com/contact to track down and resolve the problem.
(Version 1.8.2) | |
| Aug 26 2009 |
ULTIMA When I opened some compressed files of specific archive format (tar, gz, bz2) under Mac OS X 10.6 10A432, the items in the compressed files didn't show up in the window of Betterzip 1.8.1, but this trouble didn't happen when I opened ZIP or RAR files. Hope it can be fixed in the next version of Betterzip, thanks~
(Version 1.8.1) | |
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| Aug 28 2009 |
ROBERT (MACITBETTER) A new version that fixes this problem with Snow Leopard is already in beta testing and will be out after the weekend. You can get the beta version by activating the update check function in the preferences window.
(Version 1.8.1) | |
| Jun 16 2009 |
FORMICA For UNPACKING archives, Zipeg is better, and it's FREE! I spent a day upgrading my brother's family's three Macintoshes to 10.5 and partitioning each into main and emergency volumes, and I used Firewire drives and his new MacBook to backup and restore all the files and software of each. So, I was able to fully test BetterZip 1.8.1's unpacking capabilities. Two things drove me nuts: First, no matter how I set the preferences, BetterZip would never automatically unpack to the default location that I set (next to the archive), but instead would make me choose each time using the standard save-to dialog; Second, again despite my having set it to "Quit after last window closed," BetterZip would never automatically quit after unpacking an archive -- I always had to manually quit the application. For both these behaviors (and more), Zipeg is superior -- it unquestioningly saved all unpacked files in the same directory right next to their archives (just as I instructed in the preferences), and after first setting Zipeg to quit after a successful unpacking, it did so each time right after playing a little two-note song to signify completion. And as far as I can tell, Zipeg handles roughly the same types of archives as BetterZip, and it too allows you to see the complete contents of an archive before unpacking it. However, in my opinion the dialog Zipeg uses to display the contents of an archive before unpacking is more intuitive, more logical and easily understood. Of course, Zipeg is just an UNPACKER, and does not create archives like BetterZip can. However, there are several nice free utilities available for that as well (I like GUI Tar, but there are many), and for someone like me who does relatively little archive creating, those free alternatives are entirely sufficient. So for me, BetterZip slows down my workflow, while Zipeg speeds it up.
(Version 1.8.1) | |
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| Jun 17 2009 |
ROBERT (MACITBETTER) It sounds like you might like the "direct extraction" that I added in BetterZip 1.8. It will show only a progress bar when you open an archive from the Finder and extract it, much like the built-in Archive Utility. Activate it in the preferences. On the other hand, if you want to inspect the archive before extracting it, set the option "Default to 1-Click Extract" in the preferences. This will extract your archive next to the archive itself when you click the button in the toolbar.
(Version 1.8.1) | |
| Jun 5 2009 |
BS0D Very stable, easy to use. An app that I would recommend, all in all. It is much less invasive than stuffit, but has less options too. But I like it... simple and efficient. Congrats Dev, keep up the good work and save us from stuffit ;)
(Version 1.8.1) | |
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| Apr 30 2009 |
JC Not bad. Sometimes it hangs seconds while I try to extract one fold from a large file(~480MB). Besides, it has kind of problem to handle documents named with Chinese characters. If I zip some files given in Chinese name, they shows correctly on Mac instead of on Windows. Is it possible to be fix?
(Version 1.8.1) | |
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| May 1 2009 |
ROBERT (MACITBETTER) When the archive is a "solid" rar, 7-zip, or tar based file extraction of a single file can take as long as extraction of the whole archive. There's nothing I can do about it, since it is an inherent characteristic of the compression algorithm. if you think it's something different, please contact me. If you have a small example archive with Chinese characters that has this problem, please send it to my e-mail address (it's on the contact page on my web site). That would help greatly. Thanks!
(Version 1.8.1) | |
| May 29 2009 |
ROBACKJA Well, most (if not all) compression algorithms compress in chunks or blocks, bzip, gz, 7z, etc. If BetterZip used an API to extract files, for example, unrar source provides a way to build as a library, then progress could be reported on a per file basis. But I assume BetterZip just calls the UNIX command line executables, so an alternative using 2 progress bars. One overall progress, and one current file progress. Overall progress would work as it does now. Second progress would work if you knew the file size of file currently being extracted. the second progress bar could monitor the extracted size and report on individual progress.
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