The Unarchiver, part 2 (486)

1 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2011-08-31 12:54 ID:EvuKrlQD [Del]

As the previous thread filled up, here is part 2 of the The Unarchiver thread.

It is much better to post bugs on the bug tracker, rather than in this thread! Anything posted on the bug tracker has much less chance of being forgotten by me!

So, post bugs here: http://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/issues/list

Also, remember that if you post a bug about a file that is not work, you must also post the file itself, or else there is nothing I can do about it!

401 Name: nada : 2015-02-25 04:08 ID:6JA0O0T8 [Del]

Unarchiver won't open RAR files. :(

402 Name: rt : 2015-03-02 22:41 ID:Aj1A9uRd (Image: 1874x1546 png, 347 kb) [Del]

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I can't open a lot of file types including rar and 7z files especially the ones broken into parts .001, .002, etc.

403 Name: Anthiny : 2015-03-14 04:05 ID:2GN0unOK [Del]

hi,

Everytime i need to open a .zip file, it opens the settings window instead.

To add to that, I cannot change the extensions that it can extract.

Since then I had to use the Archive Utility by Apple.

Please help with this.

reply to [email protected]

404 Name: Visco : 2015-04-03 00:25 ID:cdg+/Y9y [Del]

The one reason I downloaded this was to try and play Dwarf Fortress on my mac but it keeps saying that it's contents cannot be opened by this program. The mac version can be downloaded on bay12games for the whole folder. The app says it should be able to handle .exe files so there is clearly something I'm not understanding.

405 Name: Name : 2015-04-29 12:15 ID:KFUw/k5c [Del]

@Visco:
.exe are for windows. download the mac version of dwarf fortress.

406 Name: Kirby : 2015-05-09 06:39 ID:tOY612uj [Del]

Is there any way to force The Unarchiver to run in the background on OS Yosemite? Every time my download manager finishes a download, it extracts it (as I want), but The Unarchiver becomes the active application and a window pops up showing (briefly) the progress of the un-zipping. The pop-up is distracting and, imho, unnecessary), and the program steals my keystrokes when I am typing.

I would prefer to have the files unzipped in the background, with no interruption to my workflow.

Thank you.

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408 Name: Tim : 2015-05-30 03:12 ID:X2A2Ptgo [Del]

I have recently swapped out the HDD on my iMac for an SSD. Wow - the speed bump is huge! However, having done this, Unarchiver doesn't remember that I've permitted it to extract files to a folder - usually my desktop - when extracting .rar files

I'm using the MAS version of the app on 10.10.3. I have used AppCleaner to fully uninstall the app and its attendant files and then re-installed it by downloading again from the MAS, but this makes no difference to the behaviour described above. Any ideas please?

TIA,
Tim.

409 Name: Antonella : 2015-07-09 10:21 ID:7QGehwzb (Image: 948x695 png, 169 kb) [Del]

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buonasera,
ho un problema con The Unarchiver non riesco a selezionare i vari formati
come posso risolvere il problema?
Ho provato a disinstallare il programma e a installarlo a nuovo ma il problema persiste

grazie
Antonella

410 Name: Jacob : 2015-07-23 07:05 ID:Vht6T9UR (Image: 494x403 png, 68 kb) [Del]

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I recently installed TheUnarchiver. It is advertised as able to extract .iso files, but I am unable to select the .iso box on the "Open these archives types with The Unarchiver" page.

411 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2015-09-23 03:38 ID:evNipZHY [Del]

Could it be? An actual update?

Yes, 3.10 is finally released! It is mainly a bugfix release, fixing some of the issues I've collected over time, but mainly fixing compatibility with El Capitan.

I've also stopped distributing the App Store version outside the App Store, as the sandboxing has made it quite unusable now. Instead, there is a non-sandboxed up-to-date version with Sparkle updates (which I hope will work, as I have not yet had a chance to test them). The legacy version is also still available, but without code signing or Sparkle updates.

Get it here:

http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/TheUnarchiver3.10.dmg
http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/TheUnarchiver3.10_legacy.zip

Changes:

  • Fixed crash on OS X 10.11.
  • Fixed an issue that made unpacked application not work.
  • Removed file type selector from the App Store version, as Apple broke it and there is no way to get it back to working. Apple does not allow me to tell anybody this in the actual app, though.
  • Made the normal non-App Store version not be sandboxed anymore to deal with these problems. It also now tries to update via Sparkle. This should mean that most people will not need to use the legacy version any longer to get decent functionality. (Legacy version does not use Sparkle.)
  • Better support for Zip, 7z, gzip and NSIS files.
  • Bugfixes for pax and ARJ.
  • Fixes for a few crashing bugs.
  • Added Hungarian translation by Dávid Áron Lőrincz.
  • Other translation fixes.

412 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2015-09-23 03:43 ID:evNipZHY [Del]

unar and lsar have also been updated to version 1.9 to match. Get them here:

http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/unar1.9.zip
http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/unar1.9_legacy.zip

Unfortunately, I don't have a working cross compiler for Windows at the moment so I'll have to leave that version until a bit later.

Changes:

  • Fixed crash on OS X 10.11.
  • Fixed an issue that made unpacked application not work.
  • Better support for Zip, 7z, gzip and NSIS files.
  • Bugfixes for pax and ARJ.
  • Fixes for a few crashing bugs.
  • Better quiet mode in unar.
  • Better JSON output for lsar.

413 Name: Jocke : 2015-09-23 05:00 ID:VeHJTyi5 [Del]

Where can I submit the Swedish language translation as I wan't to help by translating it? I am from Sweden and I'm good at english. Please contact me on [email protected]

I really want to help you with this awesome app by translating it to Swedish.

414 Name: Declan : 2015-09-23 07:21 ID:q/6Ahnk7 [Del]

Ra: Post 411 - New Version 3.10.

I downloaded this from the App Store and it crashes every time I use it. I have a 2009 iMac with 1Tb Hard Drive and 4Gb ram. I am using Mavericks 10.9.5. Previously The Unarchiver has been very good. I will have to remove it and use the mac's unzipping tool. I was trying to unzip a new version of FileZilla, and The Unarchiver crashed, I then tried an old zip file that I know works and it crashed again. If I start it up and don't use it, it stays running, as soon as I try to unzip something it crashed. Is the latest version not compatible with Mavericks? I tried it with Time Machine Turned off, and the same result.

415 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2015-09-23 09:44 ID:evNipZHY [Del]

>>414

It should be compatible. Could you please post an issue on the bug tracker (https://bitbucket.org/WAHa_06x36/theunarchiver/issues?status=new&status=open) and include a file that crashes, and preferably a crash report?

416 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2015-09-23 16:38 ID:evNipZHY [Del]

For >>415 and anyone else affected. this bug has now been fixed. The Unarchiver was indeed crashing on 10.9 and below.

New releases here:

http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/TheUnarchiver3.10.1.dmg
http://unarchiver.c3.cx/downloads/unar1.9.1.zip

Legacy versions are unaffected.

417 Name: momo : 2015-09-23 20:32 ID:alXp+Tab [Del]

3.10.1 on 10.6 snow leopard,
still crashing at launch

418 Name: Joao : 2015-09-24 00:34 ID:8p5nDJPb [Del]

Hello.

What about WinRAR 5 binaries? A lot of people over the internet has specified this problem with the unarchiver, it's the best app of it's kind but when we need to unpack rar files made with newer version of WinRAR 5 it does not unpack and tells the archive it's corrupted. However, if we try the same file with Keka there's no problem at all.

Try this: compress a simple file with the new WinRAR 5 in windows, try to extract it with the unarchiver. Do you see it?

This problem it's going on for almost TWO years now, and I always have to use stup*d keka to extract newer rar versions.

For the comments it simply appears you are ignoring it this last 2 YEARS! It's that developer love or there's some kind of technical issue under it?

Thanks for all your work.
Best regards,
João

419 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2015-09-24 02:10 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>418

The unrar sources aren't free software and are incompatible with The Unarchiver's license, so I can't use them. All the RAR code has been re-implemented from scratch, so adding support for an entirely new format (like RAR 5 is) takes a lot of time and effort.

There is partial support for RAR 5 at the moment (which is not yet enabled in the actual releases because it's unfinished), but it will take a lot of work to get it done. It's tentatively planned for the next release, but we'll see.

420 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2015-09-25 02:33 ID:evNipZHY [Del]

Apple finally got around to approving it, so 3.10.1 should be on the App Store too now.

421 Name: Milliways : 2015-09-29 21:46 ID:7CImyHPZ [Del]

OK I downloaded and installed The Unarchiver.

When I run it it opens the Preferences menu and quits when I close the menu.

There doesn’t seem to be any entry in the File menu to actually open a file. How do I do this?

422 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2015-09-30 08:55 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>421

Just drop files on it, or set it as the default handler for archive files.

423 Name: david : 2015-10-02 01:14 ID:fDoEL6/o (Image: 0x0 pdf, 34 kb) [Del]

bug.. el captain click app store click purchases the unarchiver marked as install. in stalled it again to make app store happy button switched to open. relaunched app store clicked purchases again marked as install. so elcaptain is not keeping the installed receipt.it thinks it is not installed even thou its in my applications folder.

424 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2015-10-02 08:12 ID:evNipZHY [Del]

>>423

I don't have any control over the App Store, so you have to report it to Apple.

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430 Name: Mike M. : 2015-10-27 05:51 ID:3BJ+rJfe [Del]

Is there any documentation available for using the XADMaster framework in another project to handle archives?

Specifically, the later versions changed how XADArchiveParserDelegate is handled and the @protocol statement is removed in the latest version's headers. It was previously there in v3.3.

I can't find any reference to using it in the app source code itself but another open source project does and now fails with ""Cannot find protocol declaration for 'XADArchiveParserDelegate'".

Thanks,

Mike

431 Name: Fabian : 2016-01-03 15:58 ID:hC/8nnsT [Del]

Hello I would love to see the ability to create Base64 encoded HTML's from HTMLZ.

I use Calibre to convert ePub's to HTMLZ, thats the best what Calibre can do. Then I use the Unarchiver to unzip the HTMLZ to HTML. And here you have to spring in. For now the Unarchiver creates the HTML file and a folder with the pictures. With the Base64 encode it is possible to create HTML files with inline images.

This would be a huge step in my workflow.

For informations see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 and other relevant websites.

Greetings

Fabian
[email protected] if you need more informations.

432 Name: Chris : 2016-01-09 18:06 ID:LfJBCE2s [Del]

Been using Unarchiver opening zipped DSF files with no problems. But now, when I open a file, the audio files are there, but NO metadata at all.

Any ideas why or what to do?

Thanks
Chris

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435 Name: tdiaz : 2016-02-07 06:43 ID:7QD14duy [Del]

Currently the unArchiver will ignore the same file queued additional times. As if the user were to keep opening the archive from Finder. It's already in the queue so it's ignored.

How about with multipart archives, do the same thing, so that when working with scripting that would essentially do the same thing as opening all the parts. the unArvchiver already parses for multipart archives- in that you can open any one part and it will start at part1 regardless.

Can this somehow go through the same check that it's doing on multiple instances of a single file?

This would allow for drag and drop of the whole download directory and have each archive processed once, instead of adding to the queue once for each part. As it is now, the user has to individually select one part from each set and open/drop that on the icon to avoid queueing multi-part archives multiple times.

Making a rule for the automator to only act on the file entry if the name ends in either *.rar or *.part1.rar .. would be ridiculously nasty. Likewise, looking for *n.rar where n is a number would mean the most common naming scheme on a file would cause it to be ignored.

FileName.Version.n.rar .. where n is the version number.

The same issue is mentioned here and marked Fixed, but .. it's not, or at least not totally.
https://code.google.com/archive/p/theunarchiver/issues/255

[email protected]

436 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2016-02-07 11:46 ID:erHB0Irq [Del]

>>435

It's supposed to already do that, I think. Doesn't it?

437 Name: tdiaz : 2016-02-07 21:13 ID:7QD14duy (Image: 924x280 png, 94 kb) [Del]

That's what I'm saying, it says it's fixed in the bug entry. But- selecting all segments of the multi-part, opening- and the queue has one for each part.

If there were a preference to overwrite on the same name this wouldn't suck nearly as much, other than wasted time.

But thats only if it's not set to move the archive to trash after processing. Then of course, it will get an error on the subsequent extractions, halting the whole process.

Verified that I am using the latest download, 3.10.1.

438 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2016-02-07 23:03 ID:Heaven [Del]

I suggest filing a new bug for it, so I'll remember to look at it when I get around to the next update.

439 Name: Pietro : 2016-03-02 20:29 ID:4y88wc2b [Del]

hello!
excuse me for my english...
I have a .zip file protected with password within non printable characters, insert the password in hex or bin format is possible?
thank you guys!

MacOS unarchivier last version.

440 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2016-03-05 20:33 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>439

No. But what kind of non-printable characters? You might be able to do it anyway, if you pick the right encoding.

441 Name: Dmitry : 2016-03-14 11:55 ID:jNxt0hp8 [Del]

Hi,

when attempting with The Unarchiver 3.10.0 to extract a perfectly good zip archive located in Dropbox folder to some other folder in the local filesystem, the dialog is thrown:
"The Unarchiver needs to search for more parts of this archive, but does not have permissions to read the folder." then archive is declared corrupted which it isn't. Moving the archive to another folder in local filesystem solves the problem, extracts without any single question.

Upgraded to 3.10.1, the dialog is now thrown all the time. NOt possible to extract with The Unarchiver.

Screenshot, logs, zip archive in question
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6jJgft1-HT7MXJrelk0NzdhdDQ&usp=sharing

Thanks.
dmitry dot bugrimenko at gmail dot com if you need more information.

442 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2016-03-14 19:09 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>441

This is probably because you have multiple zip files in the same directory named .1.zip, .2.zip and so on. There is no way to distinguish whether these are multi-part zip files or individual zip files, unfortunately.

443 Name: scottclayton : 2016-04-18 22:37 ID:lxNX6ChS [Del]

Hi Wakaba,

Great application! Curiosity question: I'm wondering… on the icon for The Unarchiver, there is a barcode on it: "57229 00132"; is there any significance to this number?


-Scott

444 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2016-04-19 00:23 ID:KUkStYSQ [Del]

>>443

Good question! Adam Betts drew the icon, so he picked the number. I never thought to ask.

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