The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X.
The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English Versions of other operating systems. I personally find it useful for opening Japanese archives, but it should handle many other languages just as well.
It is very simple to use and install - simply copy it into your Applications folder or whereever you prefer, and then set archive filetypes to open using it. This can either be done the usual way, or by double-clicking the icon to show
The Unarchiver's preferences.
Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, RAR, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more and less obscure formats. The goal is to make
The Unarchiver able to extract anything you give it.
The Unarchiver uses the libxad unarchiving library to support many older, obscure formats.
If you have a compressed file that
The Unarchiver does not open, please post a bug on the bug tracker, and include the file in question, and I will look into whether it is possible to add support for it!
New in 2.2:
Korean and Simplified Chinese translations, by Chang-Beom Park and Tianhao He respectively.
Support for the XZ compression format, along with support for embedded XZ in RPM and XAR files.
Support for LZMA2 and some more filters in 7-zip.
Support for NSA and SAR.
Better support for unicode in Zip files, and some bugfixes for Korean.
Better support for MacBinary in Zip.
Fixed an issue where the final file in a Zip file created on OS X might Get lost.
More robust reading of gzip files.
Fixed an issue with the interface, where the window was sometimes left open.
