File Juicer

Name: File Juicer
Price: 18.00 $
Rating: 4.875 (21 reviews)

4.79

27 September 2019

Extract images, video, sound, or text from files and folders.

Overview

File Juicer is a drag-and-drop can opener and data archaeologist. Its specialty is to find and extract images, video, audio, or text from files which are hard to open in other ways. In computer forensics this is called carving.

It finds and extracts: JPEG, JP2, PNG, GIF, PDF, BMP, WMF, EMF, PICT, TIFF, Flash, ZIP, HTML, WAV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MPG, MP3, AIFF, AU, WMV, or text from files which contain data in those formats.

Lossless extraction... File Juicer does't convert the images/sounds/videos it finds, but saves them unchanged in their original format if possible. (See the manual for details.) This is useful:

If you want to extract the images/sounds/videos from a PDF or Word document
If you have old files you can no longer open with current applications
If you receive emails with attachments you can not open
If you have corrupt files or databases
If you have damaged or accidentally erased flash cards for your digital camera
If you receive "self extracting" EXE files designed for Windows
Or if this is just faster than copying and pasting from the file

What's new in File Juicer

Version 4.79:

Fix:

Fix: sometimes asked twice for registration number twice when using copy and paste

File Juicer Screenshots

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I just posted a critical comment about an obvious error in the download system.. But let there be no doubt: I love this program! I purchased it in 2007, and it has served me in a great way ever since.

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Version 4.78

1 answer(s)

Dr-Sparks

31 July 2019

See my comment of July 29, 2019 and response from Vitalii@macudate.com
(MU Editor) on July 30, 2019 — and my response to that.

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Dr-Sparks

29 July 2019

There is a heat wave covering Europe these days. Maybe that's why there is a mixup in downloads? The "Download" link here at MacUpdate redirects to https://echoone.com/filejuicer/ — where I clicked "Get File Juicer 4.78 | Jul 27 2019 | 3.6 MB" "Try". Then "1) Download Version 4.78 | Jul 27 2019 | 3.6 MB". Although the FileJuicer-4.78.zip contains File Juicer.app 4.78, it is exactly the same size as version 4.77, and both are created on 23 February 2019. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."? (Shakespeare: Hamlet …)

Version 4.78

5 answer(s)

Vitalii@macudate.com

30 July 2019

Finder has a tendency to round the file sizes. If you view the details of both files you will see that the version 4.77 of File Juicer is 3,556,587 bytes and 4.78 is 3,556,619 bytes. Both numbers can be rounded to 3.6 MB.

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Dr-Sparks

31 July 2019

Thanks for your response! I have screenshots to prove that when I downloaded and wrote my post both version 4.77 and 4.78 were exactly 3,556,587 bytes. When I downloaded FileJuicer 4.78.zip again right now, it contains a version 4.78 that is 3,560, 939 bytes. But the creation date of all three of these is Saturday 23 February 2019 at 02.19 hrs. Something must be wrong!

Dr-Sparks

31 July 2019

Vitalii@macudate.com: I also checked a download of FileJuicer 4.78.zip made between my first and last downloads. It contains a version of File Juicer 4.78 that is 3,556,619 bytes, so that figure of yours is correct, too. And the creation date is also Saturday 23 February 2019 at 02.19 hrs. I am hoping for an explanation from the developer.

Echo One

01 August 2019

Some bugs require very small code changes, and no changes in the user interface. See the read-me to decide if a ug fix is relevant fo you. In most cases they are not as bugs tend to be on rarely used features.

The version info of File Juicer is available via File Juicer's "About File Juicer" in the File Juicer menu.. This include build number. I sometimes make fixes where I expect on one other than the reporter has seen it or changes so tiny they ar hardly worth mentioning. You can see that on the build number.

If you open File Juicer with Finder's "Show Package Contents" command, you can look at the internals of File Juicer. I rarely update the images so they are oldest. The code is updated the most, and it has the newest change date.

I could add a change of the entire package date to my update "to do list". It does indeed make sense to do so.

You may even be able to get a newer version of File Juicer than advertised on my web site if you click in the minute which passes between me uploading a new version and when I write the release note.

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Dr-Sparks

02 August 2019

Thank you Henrik Dalgaard (Developer of File Juicer) for the explanation! I get the picture now, although it's the first time since I began using Macs on a daily basis 30 years ago that the "Show Info" button and creation date fails to differentiate between versions. I feel like I have been making "Much Ado About Nothing" (also Shakespeare):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing

Helmo-Hass

13 February 2019

There's something wrong guys... I mean its not your fault, but the actual version available to download is THE OLD 4.25 and this is coming from the dev site directly.. even there the downloads are messed up...

Version 4.72

4 answer(s)

Echo One

13 February 2019

Version 4.25 is appropriate for PPC Macs which are quite rare these days. You may be downloading with an app which disguises the version of macOS you are running.
Today only 2 copies of File Juicer 4.25 has been downloaded, one to a MacOS 10.4 and one to an app called iGetter.
Let me know which app you are using as downloader. And your version of macOS.

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Helmo-Hass

14 February 2019

Well Mr 007
I tried from here Softpedia and from your site..Same result.... I'm on 2x10.13.6 + 10.14.4 machines i suggest to implement a better software-update as any "Normal" application has since ages... and you talk about old Os's its Hilarious... anyway thanks for replying,

Oh, forgot to mention, downloaded with Safari, Chrome,and tes iGetter 2.9.6 totally intel. No PPC stuff in here since 2005

Echo One

14 February 2019

Hi again Helmo-Hass,

With your versions of macOS you ought to get:
https://echoone.com/filejuicer/FileJuicer-4.72.zip

Only two downloads of the 4.25 has been delivered from my server today. Both to robots. Whereever you are downloading from, it is not from my site.
Mirrors, caches, impersonators are all good reasons to move to the App Store even if some features may be left out.

The main problem with switching to the App Store is that the idea of taking out files from inside of other files is a difficult concept to explain.

I wonder if the downloaded version 4.25 you got has the correct file size: 2.546.883 bytes

Kind regards
Henrik Dalgaard
Developer of File Juicer
support@echoone.com

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Helmo-Hass

14 February 2019

Hi againt to you Echo One (Developer),
by copying your link i finally got the deal..
Thanks

The choice to move to crAppStore, will as you just said affect many customers, and frankly i really hate apple policy, but this is only up to you.
I am almost sure now it will not last very long in the upcoming future, as very soon apple will move to ARM, and many (real old mac users) will definitely say goodbye, for a simple reason, in comparison to actual cpu to get something approximately similar in Arm will be too expensive for getting the same performance an Intel had 5 years ago... BUT this is another story...
have a nice day

Best program of its kind, ever‼️ Owned it for many, many years & have always appreciated how the developer keeps it current, polished and more useful as the years roll on. Wonderful app that I cannot be without. Not only does it do everything you'd want in a program like this, but it does it so well‼️ Like it's programmer, classy. ;-)

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Version 4.63

1 answer(s)

Echo One

27 November 2017

Thank you for your kind words. Which feature of File Juicer do you use most?

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Sometimes you find things that are so simple and elegant yet solve problems that are tedious. File Juicer falls into that category. When you need to tear apart anything from a PDF to the "guts" of an HTML file this tool makes it very simple.

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Version 4.59

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Annie-Walker

06 November 2017

Wonderfully put Mark‼️

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Easy! Wonderful! Effective! Now that you have read the satisfaction I have with this app I will write more. In only a few uses it has proven itself to be a wonderful short cut. Strip everything, delete the unwanted. Takes less time than my old techniques. Especially when I consider the times I would have liked to add something to me collection of resources but effort was not worth the possible expectation of use. Wonderful! Easy! Effective!

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Version 4.59

I bought this app over 11 years ago and and it still updates to the current version, and it just works! It does all it proclaims to do. I highly recommend it for everyone to add to their toolbox. You may not need it often but it will be there waiting, ready and able, when you do.

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Version 4.55