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Product Description:
Springy is a simple to use, yet powerful archiving and compression utility for Mac OS X. Springy integrates seamlessly with the Finder and includes some very useful features. All archiving tasks can be done via Drag and Drop, system Services Menu or through Springy's Finder contextual menu.
Springy features at a glance:
- Open and browse the contents of an archive or disk image without extracting any file from it.
- Quickly extract all files or only files of choice from an archive or disk image.
- Quickly extract the whole archive or disk image by double-clicking its file in a Finder.
- Modify the contents of an existing archive or disk image: add, overwrite, delete and rename files in an archive or disk image.
- Full Drag & Drop support for archiving and extracting from and into Finder.
- Archiving and extracting tasks may be accomplished quickly and efficiently using system Services Menu in Snow Leopard or Finder contextual menu in Leopard and earlier.
- Edit and modify any file in an archive or disk image by double click.
- Live preview of many types of files inside archive, without extracting.
- Browsing files in archives and disk images and extracting particular file or folder using hierarchical Finder contextual menu.
Springy supports all most widely used archiving and compression formats: ZIP, TAR, RAR, 7Z, PAX, CPIO, CPGZ, GZIP, BZIP2, UNIX Compress, SIT, JAR, DMG and ISO disk images and some more. Support for even more formats will come in future releases.
What's new in this version:
- Fixes a bug in version 1.6 which could corrupt a ZIP archive after modifying it and quitting application.
- Open, read and extract support for 7Z archives (support for creating/modifying of 7Z archives will come soon).
- Open, read and extract support for Microsoft CAB archives.
- Springy is a Services Provider application, with Services Menu actions in Snow Leopard replacing Finder contextual menu plug-in (CM plug-in is still available in Leopard and earlier).
- Direct extraction mode, when the whole archive or disk image is extracted with double click on its file in Finder (application only).
- Flat file list view, which shows all files and folders in an archive without their mutual hierarchy (application only).
- Much more robust automatic archive type recognition.
- Speed gains when opening and processing ZIP archives (especially it they contain 20000+ files inside).
- Springy can now open and extract files from malformed large ZIP archives created by Apple tools Archive Utility and ditto, which don't follow Zip64 specification properly.
- Springy can now open empty uncompressed TAR, PAX and CPIO archives it created.
- Showing icon file preview immediately after icon generation, which gives more smooth and natural user experience (application only).
- New toolbar icons for the user preferences panel (thanks to Kenichi Yoshida).
- File sizes in Snow Leopard are shown the same way as system wide, using "power of 10" instead of "power of 2" calculation.
- Removed DMG disk image file type from the list of file types for which Springy can be set as a default handler. This feature caused quite some problems for some users (application only).
- Fixed bug when drawing last or a preview column after making an empty selection in a column view in Snow Leopard (application only).
- Fixed bug when rendering file preview in a preview column for some files in Snow Leopard (application only).
- Fixed bug which disabled permanently password text field in a save panel when creating DMG disk images (application only).
- Fixed bug which hanged CM plug-in after right clicking two or more times an empty file selection in Path Finder (contextual menu plug-in only).
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
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Slow as molasses - Version: 1.5.6, 8/23/2009 07:29PM PST
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tod3
RE: claims of problems on Mac 
- Version: 1.5, 4/11/2009 02:44PM PST
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askincscott
THe guy who is running around claiming false advertising is, I was going to say an idiot, but he's probably smart enough. He made assumptions and then expected the developer to some how "make it happen". He also didn't hear a word of the very patient explanations. His chief complaint is that split archives are not supported by other Mac applications, even though it is a standard format. Which is like saying Microsoft WORD is not a Mac word processor because not every word processor on the Mac can open .doc files.
I have been testing Spriny today and it does everything it says it does and does it quite well. I have a small collection of archiving tools right now and I plan to dump the rest of them and just use Springy. It's fast and has some features that are not available on any other archiving utility on the Mac. Ironically that was basically the malcontents problem, that the developer had the nerve to do some things that nobody else on the Mac was doing yet! How dare he!!!
I have been testing Spriny today and it does everything it says it does and does it quite well. I have a small collection of archiving tools right now and I plan to dump the rest of them and just use Springy. It's fast and has some features that are not available on any other archiving utility on the Mac. Ironically that was basically the malcontents problem, that the developer had the nerve to do some things that nobody else on the Mac was doing yet! How dare he!!!
Perfect and an absolut standard tool for every - Version: 1.5, 4/3/2009 05:04AM PST
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Andreas S.
I use this software since about 1,5 years and at the latest with this release I also decided to kill every Stuffit application on my Mac. Springy is always the right tool for archiving and compressing.
The contextual menu is nice and user-friendly for every day use and give you perfect options right at your side:
- Option to preserve Macintosh contents
- Password and compression level on the fly
- etc.
Over the years I tried many other solutions, but nothing can beat Springy for my opinion.
Try it for yourself.
Regards,
Andreas.
The contextual menu is nice and user-friendly for every day use and give you perfect options right at your side:
- Option to preserve Macintosh contents
- Password and compression level on the fly
- etc.
Over the years I tried many other solutions, but nothing can beat Springy for my opinion.
Try it for yourself.
Regards,
Andreas.
I then tried to create a .dmg image from a folder that contained two related files totaling a bit over 4mb. After going through the necessary options it finally began processing it. This took a couple of minutes. I haven't used any other image creators so I don't know if this is average, slow or fast. To me, though, it is incredibly slow and not the sort of tool I could use to compress and create disk images of large folders of files.
I'm sure that this is covered somewhere in the help or FAQs but at this point I'm not going to look for it: When double-clicking on other .zip or .dmg files I get asked so many questions rather than simply opening and mounting the image as the Finder does or extracting the contents of the zip image as the Finder does. Perhaps these extra steps are a blessing to some users but for me, they're just impediments to a smooth work flow.