Melfster Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Hi I am Looking for a utility that allows you to browse the archive file and extract individual files from it. I'm looking for this same kind of functionality when updating archives. Any suggestion for OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Never found a single app on mac that can do that, kaka or keke or whatever it's called is probably the most universal mac file extractor and not even that provides such a feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#Michael Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Umm...how about this? http://archiverapp.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melfster Posted May 8, 2013 Author Share Posted May 8, 2013 Thanks I will give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyX Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 I have The Unarchiver, but you can't browse the archive though. It works the Mac Way, you click and it does everything for you. Why would you need to extract just a few files ? It'll take you more time to extract what you want, than just extracting everything, unless you're working with 2 GB compressed files, then I would understand that. Maybe WinZip for Mac could work it out for you ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadEndAccount Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Entropy basically does what you can do with Winzip and it can be purchased through the AppStore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashpowell Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Winzip, Winrar, UnrarX - Guessing theyll do it * Winzip & Winrar if available for mac, I'm not sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted May 9, 2013 Subscriber² Share Posted May 9, 2013 I use BetterZip. It's not free but as far as I can tell it's the ONLY archiving program which acts like a normal Windows one like WinRAR or 7zip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 The Archive Browser does exactly what you're looking for. You can even Quick Look items straight from the app, which is pretty convenient. https://itunes.apple...2205?mt=12&ls=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingramator Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 The Archive Browser does exactly what you're looking for. You can even Quick Look items straight from the app, which is pretty convenient. https://itunes.apple...2205?mt=12&ls=1 Unfortunately that's about as good as you will get. OSX has never had any decent archiving tools, you won't be able to modify an existing archive nor will you be able to use many password protection/custom compression algorithms. Having said that, this is good enough for casual users! For those who are wondering, there is no equivalent of WinRAR on OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadEndAccount Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Unfortunately that's about as good as you will get. OSX has never had any decent archiving tools, you won't be able to modify an existing archive nor will you be able to use many password protection/custom compression algorithms. Having said that, this is good enough for casual users! For those who are wondering, there is no equivalent of WinRAR on OSX. What a load of crap, what do you call this: You can open, edit, compress, using passwords, encrypt etc. If you want to ignore peoples posts then great but don't then make claims about things that you deliberately ignore the facts over. .Neo 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted May 15, 2013 Subscriber² Share Posted May 15, 2013 Yeah I literally just posted that there is software that works just like WinRAR on Windows and someone posts saying that there is no software that works just like WinRAR on Windows. I thought it was just BetterZip but it seems there is another as well. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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