New archiver "Rucksack" for free

[Malisk]

I read that as "nutsack". Does it support LZMA?

It does seem to support the 7-zip implementation of it at least.

[protocol7]

Still have to try this out. But just posting to say that I still haven't got the licence in my Hotmail account. Just as well I tried again with Yahoo.

[.Neo]

I followed the 4 steps again using the same email address and twitter account and immediately received my license this time. (Y)

[PNWDweller]

I haven't received my license yet either, so I went ahead and shot them an email to see if they will answer from there. I know...beggars can't be choosers, but I am liable to forget if I don't check on it now so soon. 8 days until the promotion ends and I have a lot of stuff going on at the moment so this is my free time. :)

[Inklin]

They have confirmed on their twitter that they have serious overload and they were not expecting so many people. They are working on a look up system so everyone can check his/her license keys.

[.Neo]

So far it seems like a really nifty app. The main window is unnecessarily large though compared to AppZapper for example.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

I'm sure that can be easily fixed. It looks nice compared to BetterZip, which has a more simple interface. Might switch if the features are better or at least the same.

[protocol7]

Just had a quick play with it. It handles password-protected and split rar archives just fine. Doesn't have an option to create a rar archive though so for me this reduces it's usefulness as an archiver by quite a bit (I find rar is the best format for split archives). But maybe they'll add this at a later date.

[.Neo]

I'm sure that can be easily fixed.

The window lacks a resize gripper, so no.

[PNWDweller]

For those who haven't gotten their license key, they placed a lookup tool on the bottom of their site. I followed that and got my key instantly. :)

[Quillz]

Just had a quick play with it. It handles password-protected and split rar archives just fine. Doesn't have an option to create a rar archive though so for me this reduces it's usefulness as an archiver by quite a bit (I find rar is the best format for split archives). But maybe they'll add this at a later date.

Isn't WinRAR the only program allowed to create a RAR archive? I was under the impression it's a closed source format.

[Quillz]

Eh... Went ahead and made a Twitter account I'll never use. Got my license key right away. Seems like a nice application.

[suicide_pact]

Thanks for the tip!

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

The window lacks a resize gripper, so no.

Ahem, I meant: 'I'm sure the developer of the software can easily fix it.':huh:

@Quillz: Most of these apps require the user to 'plug-in' their own copy of unrar, but some of them bundle the evaluation copy.

[protocol7]

Most of these apps require the user to 'plug-in' their own copy of unrar, but some of them bundle the evaluation copy.

Ah I wasn't aware of that. I just assumed there would be decent rar creation in archivers by now. I do most of my work on my PC. On the Mac the built-in zipper does what I need in conjunction with TheUnarchiver for extraction. So I can't really fault this then.

[.Neo]

@Quillz: Most of these apps require the user to 'plug-in' their own copy of unrar, but some of them bundle the evaluation copy.

This one doesn't require you to do anything.

[jjypk]

Keka works as good as macbuzzer rucksack does, guys. No need to subscribe to their triple-whammy (twitter, follow, spamletter) stunt when better alternatives do exist :)

[.Neo]

Keka works as good as macbuzzer rucksack does, guys. No need to subscribe to their triple-whammy (twitter, follow, spamletter) stunt when better alternatives do exist :)

The site has no way of telling if you actually signed in with your twitter account. You can push the buttons and then just switch back to the Macbuzzer site... You can even fill in a non-existent email address and retrieve the license through their own site.

[MrFuji]

Keka works as good as macbuzzer rucksack does, guys. No need to subscribe to their triple-whammy (twitter, follow, spamletter) stunt when better alternatives do exist :)

Keka looks cool, but I can't stand having that bug (woodlouse?) in my dock :p