Comments on: Fix Archive Utility When It Stops Working, Crashes, or Freezes in Mac OS X

By: A1

A1 — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:21:05 +0000

Yeah this crashes Finder, not a good piece of advice.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:55:52 +0000

Where does this tip come from exactly? It froze my whole system and I had to restart it using the power button as nothing else would work… You should be careful when publishing something you don’t know about as I may had lost some data…

By: GianMarco Tavazzani

GianMarco Tavazzani — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:57:07 +0000

Make yourself a favour: give a kick to Archive Utility and switch to The Unarchiver (http://unarchiver.c3.cx/unarchiver) and make it your default app to open any zipped file!
It works like a charm and you will stop to have liver aches!

By: Gary Cam

Gary Cam — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:55:00 +0000

Follow Toms advice, works a treat

By: Tom Simpson

Tom Simpson — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:43:19 +0000

The better solution is to grab The Unarchiver from the Mac app store. Free, and it’ll expand anything. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-unarchiver/id425424353?mt=12

By: tnacsak

tnacsak — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:35:17 +0000

One additional effect. I had to prepare for restart to fix the issue. I would quit MS Office apps and iPhoto before restart. They cannot: closing their windows they kept in Not responding state.
On the other hand, machine extremly slow down, Safari almost died…

By: tnacsak

tnacsak — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:28:57 +0000

I did it, then before trying Archive Utility search something in Spotlight, and tried to press Cmd+Enter what also have some problems with. Spotlight died, Restart SystemUIServer resulted no icons on the top-right…
I do not know, if this restart was the real cause or not, since my machine is up and running for 105 days…
The message is, to be careful.

By: Cees

Cees — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:20:12 +0000

You can also just fix file permissions in the Disk Utility and then reboot the system. Found this fix while searching for this problem a few weeks ago and it helped lots of users.