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What’s a good way to extract .rar files on the Mac?
Please recommend a nice software which will work on Lion. Default one is extracting immediately after I double click and does not support RAR, which is essential.
Would be nice if software can first browse the archive and then let me extract it.
Commercial software recommendations are mostly welcomed.
Pablo
Posted 2011-07-29T14:03:53.680
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Zipeg is free and it seems like a good choice for you. Here is a summary of the features from their website:
✓ popular: .zip, .rar, .7z, .tar, .gz, .tgz, .bzip2, .iso, .cbr, .cbz formats;
✓ rare: .arj, .lha .lzh, .cpio, .rpm, .chm, .z, .war, .ear
✓ decrypts password protected .zip and .rar files (strong AES encryption).
✓ auto-magically combines and opens multipart .zip and .rar files.
✓ shows content of archive and allow you to select what to extract.
nmat
Posted 2011-07-29T14:03:53.680
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It doesn't support looking inside archives, but it's free, simple enough and works with tons of formats.
Lri
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I would prefer something that will browse first, like Winrar with GUI – Pablo – 2011-07-29T17:11:11.247
Daniel Beck
Posted 2011-07-29T14:03:53.680
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> Pacifist is not yet compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” though – slhck – 2011-07-30T09:07:57.647
Thanks @slhck. I spent about as long to research for this as the OP, searching for "zip" on iusethis ;) – Daniel Beck – 2011-07-30T15:00:23.107
A strong vote for BetterZip, IMO substantially better UI and usabiity than the free alternatives justify the price... – The Tentacle – 2011-07-30T15:27:06.873
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Try Springy.
The list of supported archive and disk image types includes ZIP, TAR, RAR, 7-ZIP, TGZ, TBZ, PAX, CPIO, CPGZ, JAR, SIT, DMG, ISO... and more. Future releases will include more types in this list. Also allows you to browse archives before extracting them.
TookTheRook
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Thanks Mahendru, will try. Looking forward to see other opinions and recommendations. – Pablo – 2011-07-29T14:23:34.707
4Please show which programs you already tried (it's really not difficult to find some) and found lacking; i.e. research effort. – Daniel Beck – 2011-07-29T14:12:46.160
Archive Utility. – Pablo – 2011-07-29T14:15:55.487
(Closely) related to osx - What’s a good way to extract .rar files on the Mac? - Super User
– Lri – 2011-07-29T17:00:30.890I wasn't actually advocating to close this question. The linked question was specific to RAR files. This one is possibly even closer to osx - Winrar-like archive utility for OS X - Super User.
– Lri – 2011-07-31T07:52:31.490