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The Unarchiver

The Unarchiver - 2.3

Unarchive ZIP, TAR, SIT, RAR, and 7-Zip files.

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This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 2.3
Release Date: 2010-01-11
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 8,714
Downloads (all versions): 65,118

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Product Description:

  • Supports more formats than I can remember. Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, 7-Zip, Rar, LhA, StuffIt, several old Amiga file and disk archives, CAB, LZX, stuff I don't even know what it is.
  • Copies the Finder file-copying/moving/deleting interface for its interface.
  • Uses the character set autodetection code from Mozilla to auto-detect the encoding of the filenames in the archives.
  • Supports split archives for certain formats, like RAR.
  • Built around libxad (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxad/). This is an old Amiga library for handling unpacking of archives. It supports a whole lot of formats, and I added a couple more, and bugfixed old code. I also wrote a higher-level Objective-C wrapper around it, which might be useful for other projects too (including Xee).

What's new in this version:

  • 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.

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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The Unarchiver ReviewThis thing just plain works - Version: 2.3, 1/12/2010 09:24AM PST

summerstormpictures
I see a lot of updates on a regular basis but have yet to have any problems. It's nice to have something so simple and free just work without any issues whatsoever.

Keep up the good work.
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The Unarchiver Troubleshooting ReportIt used to work... now it's broken. - Version: 2.0.1, 8/30/2009 07:40AM PST

tonton--2008
I have used this program for months and months with no problem. After the 2.0 upgrade, I suddenly cannot open certain password protected .zip files I had no problem with in the past. How do I downgrade to 1.6?
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The Unarchiver ReviewWorked for me. - Version: 1.6.1, 1/10/2009 12:24PM PST

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garyrog
I got this to open a .sit file -- I didn't want any more of that stuffit stuff for me on my hard drive.

The first time I ran it it put up a preferences window with a checkbox for each of the formats it could handle. I checked the checkbox for .sit files.

Then when I opened my .sit file it went directly into The Unarchiver and it opened it with no problem.

So, for my simple use, the app could not have been easier or worked better.
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