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    File Compression

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by taelrak, Mar 14, 2011.

  1. taelrak

    taelrak Lost

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    Anyone have any opinions on Unarchiver (listed in free mac apps post) vs. Betterzip vs. UnrarX vs STuffit or any other kind of generic file decompression utility?

    Primary use would be to unpack files, but having some sort of compression function would be useful too, though not necessary. Willing to pay for a great one, but free is better of course.
     
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  2. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    pretty comparable. unarchiver works well. definitely no need to pay for this type of tool.
     
    masterchef341, Mar 14, 2011
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    I use OSX built in tools to do everything except rar and 7z. on the rare occasion I find a rar (i'd never want to make one) I use UnRarX cuz its free. For all my personal use I usually use 7z, as it can compress things much smaller than any other format. I do most of mine command line as i have a command line utility and wrote my own scripts to do .tar.7z files correctly for my own uses.... but 7zX is a good GUI app that handles 7z files.
     
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  4. LIVEFRMNYC

    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    I use Stuffit and had no problems so far. Quick, painless and free
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Mar 15, 2011
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