Extract & Uncompress Virtually Any Archive File with Unarchiver for Mac OS X
The Unarchiver is a one stop shop for extracting and uncompressing virtually any archive file that you’ll come across. Easily managing the usual archive formats of zip, sit, gzip, bin, tar, hqx, it’ll also easily tear through less common archive types including rar files, 7z, bzip2, cab, sea, exe, rpm, and many other obscure compression formats that OS X’s built-in Archive Utility can’t handle.
Once Unarchiver has been affiliated with the archive formats of your choice it will automatically launch and extract the files if you come across them, the integration is completely seamless much like the Macs default utilities for decompressing files. There are a variety of options for managing the archives as well, you can set Unarchiver to always extract to a specified folder, trash the original archive after extraction, open the extracted folder immediately, adjust the modification time of the created folder, and a few other handy adjustments.
Unarchiver is a free download and should be considered a must-have utility for all Mac users. While most archives these days are made as zips, you never know when you’ll encounter one of the more unusual file formats, so instead of getting stuck with a useless uncompressable archive, extract it all with Unarchiver.
+1 for The Unarchiver, it is one of the first things I add when configuring a Mac
The Unarchiver is broken since the addition of sandboxing. Extracted apps won’t open and some files are unreadable, even with v3.2.
BetterZip does the job for me, even though it’s ugly as hell.
I hope Apple adjusts their policy then, some of these apps are too useful to not allow simply because of the sandboxing requirement.
I experienced the same Sandbox problems; apps not opening etc. I reverted to my trusty Archiver app.
Been using it for years. Great app.
Unarchiver is a must, they should consider charging something, they deserve it.
Unarchiver is fantastic but if we only want to handle something like bzip can’t we just use bzip2 decompression from the terminal?