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Nov 19 2009

MYANMAR  I keep downloading version 0.9.4 either here or on your site .  
(Version 1.00)

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Nov 19 2009

MACUPDATE ADMIN  Clear your browser's cache or use another browser and try downloading the file again. I just now downloaded the file using the link here at MacUpdate via Safari. It is version 1.00 beyond any and all doubt.  
(Version 1.00)

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Nov 19 2009

MYANMAR  Sorry, my bad, succesfully updated to 1.0 now :)  
(Version 1.00)

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Oct 24 2009

RYAN666  I keep getting the same "Can't make into type alias" message. I'm using an iMac with osx 10.5.7 I tried changing the default output directory, and it still doesn't work. Help!  
(Version 0.94)

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Oct 24 2009

LEIFH  can you be more specific about when it's happening?  
(Version 0.94)

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Sep 28 2009

LEIFH  I made a typo in the description - only extracting rar archives is supported, not creating them.  
(Version 0.934)

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Sep 22 2009

LEIFH  after testing 0.93, I am not as sure about being able to open the file types listed above.  
(Version 0.93)

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Sep 23 2009

LEIFH  can anyone confirm wether or not these newly introduced file types open?  
(Version 0.93)

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Sep 18 2009

MYANMAR  I get this message "Can’t make "/Users/leifh/Desktop/" into type alias. (-1700)" when trying to expand any file :(  
(Version 0.924)

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Sep 18 2009

LEIFH  try changing the default output directory in preferences.  
(Version 0.924)

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Sep 18 2009

MYANMAR  That solved he problem, thanks a lot developer !  
(Version 0.924)

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Sep 21 2009

EIN  I have same problem. how can I change default output? where is it?  
(Version 0.924)

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Sep 21 2009

LEIFH  click the "eZ 7z" menu item then click "preferences".  
(Version 0.924)

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Sep 3 2009

STEFAN-EASELNET  Works great here :)  
(Version 0.881)

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Aug 16 2009

TERRANCE332  Work well for me, great app.  
(Version 0.831)

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Aug 16 2009

FORMICA  This version seems like a nice app, but instead of having a text field where we can drag and drop a file AND can enter the file path (a.k.a. location) of a file to compress -- which is a time consuming way to do it, it would be better to have a text field where we can drag and drop a file and a BUTTON that would bring up an open dialog to find the file to compress, OR ALL 3. Otherwise, I like it and look forward to using it.  
(Version 0.821)

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Aug 16 2009

LEIFH  "..., but instead of having a text field where we can drag and drop a file AND can enter the file path (a.k.a. location) of a file to compress -- which is a time consuming way to do it..."

It's useful to be have the ability to type in the location if you need to work with hidden files. I agree the image drop was redundant so I removed it. Also you can go to file->open file or open folder. They also have keyboard shortcuts.  
(Version 0.831)

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Aug 15 2009

KANA01  works fine et usefull, thanks :)  
(Version 0.7)

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Aug 9 2009

CSTU  couldn't figure out p7zip, but this works nicely. Thanks.  
(Version 0.65)

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Jul 19 2009

LEIFH  Sorry everyone, I've been lazy. Haven't been working on my programming for a while now. I'll get it together soon and release an update addressing all of your suggestions.  
(Version 0.65)

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Jul 8 2009
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PIETRO CRISTOFOLI  It works pretty well .... it also recognizes certain auto-expanding executables that Stuffit isn't able to manage ... well done.  
(Version 0.65)

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Nov 25 2008

MSWFUJOWDFFYC  The update function doesn't appear to work in .65 and the dialog displayed when you can't connect says "you're internet is down" when it should be "your internet is down."

I suppose I could have sent this via e-mail to check if my internet was down, though. ;)

Beyond that, I'm pretty happy with the application.

I agree with the previous comment of writing the last used compression to the plist, and making it default to the same folder that the files/folder the user is trying to 7zip is in.

Another suggestion would be to make the file name blank by default or make it the folder being 7zipped.

Anyway, thanks for the great app!  
(Version 0.65)

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Aug 15 2008

BEAMY  EZ 7z is a great 7zip tool.

It would be nice if it would automatically save the 7zip archive (next to the file which you want to compress or to a standard location which the user can choose eg Desktop).

It would also be nice if it would remember the compression level which you used.

:-)  
(Version 0.62)

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Oct 19 2008

LITTLEB  why not email what u just said in your comment to the developer by clicking the leave feedback menu item  
(Version 0.65)

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Aug 14 2008

LEIFH  that  is supposed to be an apple sign btw  
(Version 0.62)

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Feb 3 2008
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APPLECRYPT MODS  this is a great little util, recommended to all :-)

Thank you  
(Version 0.6)

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Nov 17 2007

SWEETBEEZ  im trying to use EZ to download some games for my nds. i dont think im using it correctly. i drag the file into the EZ folder i chose compress and i press go and in the terminal box it keeps giving me error..heeeelllp!  
(Version 0.581)

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Jan 21 2008

LEIFH  If you want to get something out of 7z format then use decompress.  
(Version 0.581)

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Jan 21 2007

KHIEBERT  Thank you for this quick and easy program! I proved to myself that the 7za program bundled inside the app is able to create encrypted archives (e.g. EZ 7z.app/Contents/Resources/7za a -pPASSWORD path/archive.7z path/file_to_encrypt) -- will that feature be added to a future release? Thanks again!  
(Version 0.581)

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Jun 3 2007

LEIFH  Ah thanks. I didn't quite understand how to use passwords with it. Let's just hope I can pass it from the GUI to 7za, then I'll put it into the next version.  
(Version 0.581)

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Nov 12 2006

LEIFH  Make sure the you selected the correct item in the pulldown menu.  
(Version 0.581)

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Nov 2 2006

  Every time I open a terminal window 7za tests the integrity of a compressed file. Any hints?

Thanks.  
(Version 0.581)

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Apr 2 2006

LEIFH  I forgot to mention, in version 0.5, you can now change the level of compression but I took out the password function because it wasn't working. I might bring it back later if I can figure out what went wrong.  
(Version 0.5)

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Apr 2 2006
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JEDIK  It seems that the program has problems with non-US systems. Didn't work here. Also, where is the password feature that appears in the screen shot?  
(Version 0.5)

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Apr 2 2006

LEIFH  What happened when you tried to use it? And about the password function, I took it out because it wasn't working.  
(Version 0.5)

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Apr 5 2006

JEDIK  It does not create the compressed file, just says:

AppleScript Error:

NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4 (1)

The path to the file has no spaces or unusual characters, as the compressed file wthat would be created.  
(Version 0.5)

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Jan 19 2006
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CLARUS84  works in the end, just gives no notification that it reads the file.   
(Version 0.45)

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Jan 3 2006

BUCKY  Worked perfectly for me. I only used it to uncompress some .7z files but it worked very well.   
(Version 0.45)

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Nov 27 2005
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ANONYMOUS  it worked just fine for me, It gave compression better than any format stuffit uses.  
(Version 0.45)

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Oct 10 2005

ANONYMOUS  Download link doesn't work. Anyone have a secondary url to download from?  
(Version 0.44)

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Oct 10 2005

LEIF HEFLIN  Sorry I thought it still worked. I'm hosting it on savefile now. The only problem with them is that after 14 days, if no one downloads the file, it will be deleted.  
(Version 0.44)

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Oct 10 2005

MU ADMIN  We've got it mirrored now.   
(Version 0.45)

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Aug 9 2007

HAUGHTY  Hi,

your link doesn't work. Can you please update or send me a new link to quytran@ucla.edu thank you  
(Version 0.581)

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Oct 2 2005
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MANO  It decompressed everything into one directory. It did not create subdirectories. (the x option preserves directory structures the e option does not on the CL)

Other than that it was nice. I agree with the other poster though. It woudl be nice to edit the default options.  
(Version 0.41)

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Oct 2 2005

LEIF HEFLIN  O, I was wondering why it didn't do that. I'll change it to x in version 0.43. If you can tell me how to change the compression settings then I'll also add that. I looked in the -help for 7za and couldn't find them.  
(Version 0.41)

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Nov 12 2005

ANONYMOUS  Great work, EZ to use, nice GUI, screenshot is inaccurate  
(Version 0.45)

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Nov 12 2005

ANONYMOUS  7zip does NOT support archiving hiarchial structures  
(Version 0.45)

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Sep 18 2005

ANONYMOUS  the best one and, finally, it's slowly but getting closer to PC version  
(Version 0.41)

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Sep 18 2005

ANONYMOUS  Works fine most of the time. One major setback is that if you try to compress an app it decompiles everything so that the app is useless when you decompress from 7z. Otherwise it works OK I guess.  
(Version 0.41)

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Sep 10 2005

JKLMNOP-DASH  It would be nice if there are some compression settings to fiddle around with so I can see if I could get my files as small as possible ...

In case you're wondering, I'm one of those weird people that don't trust the Default settings.

Thanks!  
(Version 0.3)

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Sep 13 2005

LEIFH  I don't think you can change the compression on 7za but I added password protection in v0.4 which should be up tomorrow.  
(Version 0.3)

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Aug 30 2005

LEIFH  Those problems are because of 7za not EZ 7z.  
(Version 0.3)

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Aug 29 2005

ANONYMOUS  tells me my 7z file isn't an archive when i try to open it, opens fine on windows 7zip  
(Version 0.3)

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Sep 18 2005

LEIFH  I think I fixed that in 0.41.  
(Version 0.4)

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Aug 27 2005

ROBERT MOORE  I tried decompressing a 3.5 GB file to my second partition. Because there wasn't enough space on my startup disk (?), the process was aborted. The only way I found to workaround the problem was to move a thousand or so files across to my second partition as they appeared on my startup disk thereby freeing up space for the next batch. Very irritating.  
(Version 0.3)

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Aug 24 2005

ANONYMOUS  The poll should have bzip2 and gzip too, and probably diskimages (although they have different types of compression) as well.  
(Version 0.3)

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Aug 24 2005
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ANONYMOUS  This is what I have been waiting for! Thanks.  
(Version 0.3)

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Aug 23 2005

MIKE  Regarding the poll on the right, should tar format really be there, since it doesn't compress anything? (It mostly just wraps the files together. That's why the extra step of using GZip compression is often used.)  
(Version 0.3)

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Aug 23 2005

LEIFH  O I thought it was a compression method.  
(Version 0.3)

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Aug 23 2005

ANONYMOUS  Just to show how great this compression is, I compressed a 706 MB .cdi file into a 70 MB .7z file!  
(Version 0.2)

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Aug 23 2005

ANONYMOUS  And what was on that disc image? A lot of blank space? To get that much gain from compressing, there would have to be a lot of blank/wasted or redundant space.  
(Version 0.3)

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Feb 5 2006

LEIFH  It was a computer game.  
(Version 0.48)

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Aug 22 2005

ANONYMOUS  I've been waiting 7zip format for Macs for a long time

using on PCs for years

one of the best compression ratio

just a few times lost to WinRAR

definitely will use it  
(Version 0.2)

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Aug 22 2005

B  I tried to compress a 162MB DMG and terminal ran 7zip and the output archive was 4KB's. So based on that I'd have to say something ain't working just right.

I'm not rating this yet but I may have to give it a bad rating because there is no way to get a hold of the author.  
(Version 0.2)

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Aug 23 2005

ANONYMOUS  Just email me at leifh90@hotmail.com  
(Version 0.2)

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Aug 23 2005

ANONYMOUS  It might be because 7z is a windows format and dmg is mac. It might not understand it.  
(Version 0.2)

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Aug 23 2005

JOHN VALENS  That doesn't make much sense. Why would a compression system need to understand a file format to take shot at compressing it? What sort of algorithm is it if it's not treating files as streams of arbitrary bytes? The worst-case scenario should have been no compression achieved (or a compressed file that's bigger than the original), not a stub file that has nothing to do with the original, no?

I have tested p7zip 4.2 on a 180 Mb compressed dmg file with no problems. It simply didn't compress much at all, as expected.  
(Version 0.3)

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Aug 22 2005

ANONYMOUS  According to what I've been able to find out, this compression technology is free, open source, and superior to Stuffit for OS X. So, what I don't understand is why it isn't the default archive format for OS X? Then there would be no need for everyone to install Stuffit! (I hate Stuffit!)  
(Version 0.2)

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Aug 22 2005

ANONYMOUS  You'd still have to install it, to decompress all the already-existing sit and sitx archives out there. Unless someone can convince everyone else to recompress them...  
(Version 0.2)

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Aug 22 2005

ANONYMOUS  So how does this compare to other compressed archives?  
(Version 0.2)

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Aug 22 2005

IMTIRED  Mileage may vary depending on what you're compressing, but a good document about compression schemes is here:

http://flashlight.slad.cz/?p=4&lng=en  
(Version 0.2)

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Aug 22 2005

ANONYMOUS  Cool, thanks! That is very handy!  
(Version 0.2)

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