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DESCRIPTION
The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X.
The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, 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.
WHAT'S NEW
New in 2.3:
- Updated French localization by Ronald Leroux.
- Can now join simple split files (those named .001, .002 and so on).
- Supports MSI files. The same format is actually used for many
Microsoft file types, so you can now also extract the internals
of DOC or PPT files, among others. If you have some reason to.
- Much better support for DiskDoubler. Added two missing compression
methods.
- Fixed CAB support, which was broken. Should now support all CAB
files, including multi-part.
- Amiga LZX should work better.
- Supports more naming schemes for multi-part RAR files.
- Some other bugfixes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| The Unarchiver User Reviews (113 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jan 20 2010 |
VECTORPANDA always works where BOMArchiveHelper (mac finder's built in decompressor) fails, and is quite fast. would be nice if it had sparkle for auto-updating, but that's hardly a deal breaker. 5 stars all around.
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 | Jan 13 2010 |
ALLANLIBUNAO Still the best, but now gets confused with files such as: Previously, it would correctly combine and unrar, but now falters. (I just use Split&Concat before the final unrar'ing.) But still the best.
(Version 2.3) | |
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 | Jan 13 2010 |
WAHA.06X36 If you could file a bug and tell me where I can get some files that fail to extract, that would be a great help and I could fix this.
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| Jan 12 2010 |
TH3 J0K3R Switched from Stuffit now that this can expand .001 files (HJ Split I think...) | |
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| Jan 12 2010 |
SWEETBLUE Really like this application; so simple, clean and efficient with minimal fuss. Works nicely w/ Snow Leopard. Only feature request I have is a "Check for updates" menu bar item.
(Version 2.3) | |
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| Jan 11 2010 |
NSREXLER Best OS X program for RAR files, by far
(Version 2.3) | |
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| Dec 29 2009 |
ANN Can this utility open a .exe file?
(Version 2.2) | |
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| Jan 11 2010 |
WAHA.06X36 It can open many exe files that are just self-extracting archives, but probably not all of them. It can also open many NSIS exe installers. If you have an exe file that does not open, but should contain some kind of archive, please post it on the bug tracker!
(Version 2.3) | |
| Dec 27 2009 |
AIKOUSHA Excellent program, however, with 2.2, we've got another small issue. "You have a much better chance of getting things fixed if you file a bug report" Problem with this is, I've been to the developer's page several times, and still can't get to a "bug report" page. The one link that should go to one, just goes to a page that has general information about the program. So, here is a recent bug with version 2.2… When giving the program several .7z files, it only processes the first one (the one that appears at the top of the "The Unarchiver" list, and then quits, without processing any of the other ones. It doesn't even do it in order, so if the unpacked item doesn't have the same name as the compressed file, it can be problematic to find the file that actually got unpacked. This happens with every batch of .7z files I tried this with. To note, in case this is causing the issue, the .7z files had multiple .rar'd images inside as well as a few .txt and .rtf files. No passwording is involved.
(Version 2.2) | |
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 | Jan 7 2010 |
VTAGLE http://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/issues/list is the bug tracker page which the developer links to from the website. If you use the Bug Tracker button in the menu along the right hand side of the page, it'll take you to the Google Code page and from there, you have to click on the Issues tab to get to the bug tracker.
(Version 2.2) | |
| Nov 17 2009 |
RGL-1 Excellent software - I use it all the time, for expanding all sorts of files.
(Version 2.2) | |
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| Nov 17 2009 |
KNOWHOWE Great freeware. Many thanks, mr developer, for your hard work.
(Version 2.2) | |
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| Oct 23 2009 |
RICHARD TAYTOR This program has failed on occasion for me. In the present case, I upgraded (from 1.6) and discovered that the latest version (2.1) still has the same problem. BOMArchiveHelper (not to mention tar) has no trouble with the file, which can be found here: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/markdown/discount-1.5.5.tar.gz
(Version 2.1) | |
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| Oct 25 2009 |
WAHA.06X36 You have a much better chance of getting things fixed if you file a bug report, but now that I have seen this, it will most likely be fixed in the next version.
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