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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
Version 1.6.1: Leopard compatibility fixes.
(A real update is in development but will not be ready for some time.)
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| The Unarchiver User Reviews (87 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Feb 26 2009 |
JOSEF K. seems not to work properly with sitx archive (says content cannot be extracted but stuffit do extract it!)
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 | Mar 20 2009 |
FROMAGE-HEAD sitx is proprietary format, only stuffit can open it
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| Jun 16 2009 |
FOOFOORABBIT 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
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| Nov 21 2008 |
MSWFUJOWDFFYC The Unarchiver actually does not stall or choke on large segmented files. It unfortunately provides poor feedback to its progress. It extracts each segment individually and then sits there with a 100% done progress bar until it copies the files from a temporary location to the extraction directory.
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| Jul 28 2008 |
VERYCARLA Gotta admit, I'm a little cheesed off with The Unarchiver. It asked me nicely which filetypes I wanted associated with it. I only wanted it to handle stuffit archives, since I don't want to install StuffIt because it takes over every file format and I don't like that. So what does The Unarchiver do? It takes over every file format anyway. Screw you, Unarchiver. If I wanted a grabby program that didn't play well with others I'd've installed StuffIt!
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 | Sep 13 2008 |
CASTLE The exact same thing happened here, too. I want The Unarchiver to handle zips and sit files, but I absolutely don't want it opening rar archives. I have other apps I prefer for that. Unarchiver completely ignored my settings and has taken over everything it thinks it can open, including Windows .exe files.
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| Jul 9 2008 |
ALFRED KAIDA I have big problems with The Unarchiver and password-protected and/or segmented rar-archives. The Unarchiver crashes stalls freezes on these. Has ANYBODY using The Unarchiver had success with this kind of files or any other password-protected or segmented filetypes? If it doesn't work, why not state that clearly in the description, this is not the stated wonder app, it's crap. As for now The Unarchiver is just waste of time to the most users, it just doesn't support the modern and now often used archive types. The Unarchiver, - what for? Don't spend time downloading this, you will regret it if you expect a working app.
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| Jul 23 2008 |
LEO KUZNETSOV I am author of Zipeg. I would be most curious if you can unpack the same encrypted/multipart file with Zipeg application. If you still have trouble please let me know via Zipeg website support page. Thanks
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| Jan 7 2009 |
TOXICTHREE I have the same problem, but it doesn't freeze, just gives me one of two different "not possible"-type error notes. I use unRAR for files with a password, which works just fine but is a little less user-friendly. I really do wish that Unarchiver could handle those, though. It's much easier to use, and it does ASK for a password!
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| May 31 2008 |
ROBK According to the X-Lossless Decoder Project, The Unarchiver breaks unix permisions during the extracting of an archive, See http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html Is this true?
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| May 27 2008 |
JOHN LAU Great software, i use UnRARX before but it can't expand .sit format. Great for Unarchiver!
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| Jul 9 2008 |
ALFRED KAIDA @ JOHN LAU "Great software, i use UnRARX before but it can't expand .sit format. Great for Unarchiver!" Well unRARX is called Un_RAR_X not un_SIT_x. Maybe this suggestion helps you... UnRARX is the best tool for Rar-archives until now.
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| Apr 30 2008 |
JON55 So, is this still in development? I see it says there's a "real" update coming. I hope so, I really like this app and want to see continued development. Keep up the good work guys!
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| Apr 20 2008 |
REZA666 I tested SimplyRAR which did not work at all so i had low expectations but this program works really well. What i like is that i can select several files and unrar them at once. nice program indeed!
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| Apr 3 2008 |
XARIK 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.
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