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!
Is there a way to combine RAR files into a single folder/file? For instance I have 6 .rar parts and need them to combine into one folder/file because each part contains a portion of the folder/file.
Is there a way to set it to show the contents of the archive before extracting? Mac OS 10.8.4. Thanks.
I'd like to see a support for the new RAR 5.0 format, see http://www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm and http://www.rarlab.com/technote.htm
Unarchiver just stopped working for me. Clicking a .zip file invokes it but no windows, no progress, and the app refuses to quit afterwards.
I downloaded a new copy but - in classic kafkaesque fashion - the download is a .zip file.
If I open it with Stuffit expander I can see a folder being created in the same directory but it auto-deletes as soon as the process is complete.
Any ideas? is my Mac haunted?
That all sounds absurd. Are there any useful message printed to Console.app?
3.9 has been released. Changes are:
unar and lsar 1.8 have also been released, to match:
Oops, there was a bug that cause double-format archives like .tar.gz to not extract right. 3.9.1 has been released to fix this. Hopefully the app store will get around to updating soon too.
unar and lsar 1.8.1 have also been released, where the same bug only cause them to print the wrong directory after extraction, the files still extracted fine.
Reminder: If window is minimized or hidden while extracting, when it's finished the icon remains in the Dock and doesn't auto quit. Not a biggie, just reporting.
Cheers.
Latest update will not download.
Get referred to purchase page and it will not download from there either.
Suggestions?
I am not sure about what you are trying to download, from where, or what page that is. Can you please be more specific?
is support for the new RAR 5.0 format planned?
I've had the same problem. There's an update available from the Mac App Store app, select update and then it displays a message that says it failed.
I found a solution was to completely remove The Unarchiver from my system (using a utility like AppCleaner) and then to redownload from the Mac App Store.
HTH
That should probably be reported to Apple, as it is entirely their responsibility.
After downloading a multi-part RAR file, such as the flacs at http://djrichiep.com/fun-with-vinyl-collections/fwv019-prince-the-virtual-u-s-7-singles-box-volume-1, The Unarchiver unzips the file multiple times, wasting time and disc space. Any solution?
That should not happen. Are you trying to open all the parts at one time? And which version, on which OS?
how do i extract rar files that are split in parts? do i need to extract it as one, or multiple?
Yes I download a lot of .rar that have multiple parts. And I think that was the problem I assumed I had to select all the rar files and double-click. Problem solved by clicking the first one
thank you.
Love it except for it doesn't do regular deletes on network drives.
This is intentional, as you can't move a file to the trash on a network drive, you have to delete it permanently, and that seems too drastic for an automatic deletion function.
>>363
Maybe have it as an advanced feature somewhat hidden with a warning prior to selecting the option or something. I think more and more people are now using external/network drives so this would be helpful.
Please add an option to show typed passwords.
Could you please prominently display current the version number on The Unarchiver web page?
Just downloaded it for my Mac and tried to unarchive a 7z file...Only to get an error-message to say that the file "cannot be extracted with this program."
Please file a bug on the issue tracker, and include the file, or else I can not do anything about it.
OK, so I'm no geek. But I downloaded The Unarchiver from the Apps Store - and even tossed in a donation because, heck, a person should be paid for his hard work. And up it pops on my screen saying that I have to choose an application to open it - making no suggestions, mind you! Huh? What? I looked in Utilities, wondering if there was something there that would work, but I'm leery of messing up my computer, so I closed Utilities - and The Unarchiver had simply vanished. It's not in Downloads. Finder can't find it.
Guess I should have seen if I could even open it, before I paid for it. Can anyone help me?
I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do. If you bought it on the App Store, it should be in Applications, and you can just click it there to start it. Is there any problem if you do that?
Is there a way to get a history of what was last unarchived?
No, unfortunately not.
Regarding a post on your Google code pages:
https://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/issues/detail?id=426
This might be helpful:
sfArkLib, Library for decompressing sfArk soundfonts gone fully GPL in 2013...
http://melodymachine.com/sfark-linux-mac
https://github.com/raboof/sfArkLib
Thanks, KAHJ.
Has support for .warc files been removed? I'm trying to open one, have tried an older version as well, and get "Couldn't recognize the archive format."
Shouldn't have been. File an issue on the bug tracker to remind me to check into if something has gone wrong with that.
Hello
Could you add option to disable sandboxing for NON-MAS version? It's kind of annoying to deal with open folder dialogs all the time
Get the legacy version, it is not sandboxed.
Since update to mavericks unarchiver opens the preferences windows when I click on a .rar file, and it doesn't work. I have to use the menu to open the rar files. What am I doing wrong?
Is there a simple way to make unarchiver do the unpacking in the current directory (where the archive is found)? I want this most of the time and it is a pain having to navigate there manually or choose the default and then go searching for the unpacked files.
Is support for the new RAR 5.0 format planned?
For RAR format, the "Support level" "Full" is misleading if not false because there is not support for RAR 5.0. I would vote to implement the support but please in the meantime update the Supported formats page for accuracy.
You should update rar version inside unarchiver. From this last months I cannot use my favourite app (the unarchiver) because it cannot handle last rar version properly.
Archives packed with rar5.0 will not be extracted with the unarchiver.
Thanks.
In the settings I can not select all the types of files to be processed.
And I can not select further individually types except the default.
I cannot select/deselect any archive format in the preferences dialog (I'm on Yosemite). Does anyone else have this issue? Any suggestions on how to solve this?
having the same issue as CB and Emilio
Hello.. Why can't I drag and drop folders that contain archives to The Unarchiver? I know that a folder itself isn't considered an "archive" but shouldn't it be able to just LOOK inside the folder, and then do it's task?
this software is NEAR perfect... NEAR
plz help me out here.. thanks
Apple has removed this feature from apps in the App Store. You will have to get the legacy version to use it.
Hello.. Why can't I drag and drop folders that contain archives to The Unarchiver? I know that a folder itself isn't considered an "archive" but shouldn't it be able to just LOOK inside the folder, and then do it's task?
this software is NEAR perfect... NEAR
plz help me out here.. thanks
The App works perfectly fine. But it will be nice if you can update the UI and icon set to match with OS X Yosemite. Many thanks to developers.
What I did to solve the selection problem, was to go to http://unarchiver.c3.cx/unarchiver and download the not App Store version.
If you run that one, you can select all the formats.
After selecting and closing the program, I threw the downloaded version in the trash, and the already installed App Store one had all the formats selected.
In short :
Doenload the standalone one, use that to select all the formats and throw it away after that.
I got strange things with The Unarchiver.
The apps works perfectlly except with iWork files. If I unzip .zip files including iWork files such as .pages .numbers .key which were zipped with OS X built in Compress, iWork cannot open the unzipped files.
iWork shows '"xxxxx.pages" can't be opened' error.
This is very strange. This happens always and only with iWork files on my Mac.
Does this happen to anybody?
>>389 Please, update The Unarchiver for Yosemite.
The Unarchiver helped me open large data files I needed for my dissertation. Don't know what I would have done without your help!
I can't open RAR files with The Unarchiver. I'm currently in OS X. I don't know what the problem is and there is no recent update. Please help :(
I can't open a lot of file types including rar and 7z files especially the ones broken into parts .001, .002, etc.
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]
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.
@Visco:
.exe are for windows. download the mac version of dwarf fortress.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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.
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?
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.
3.10.1 on 10.6 snow leopard,
still crashing at launch
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
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.
Apple finally got around to approving it, so 3.10.1 should be on the App Store too now.
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?
Just drop files on it, or set it as the default handler for archive files.
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.
I don't have any control over the App Store, so you have to report it to Apple.
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
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.
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
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