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    Unzipping and Unraring in OSX Leopard?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Captain Fail, Mar 21, 2009.

  1. Captain Fail

    Captain Fail Notebook Evangelist

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    What are the best tools to unzip and unrar in OSX Leopard?

    I've heard good things about unrarx for unraring. Is there a better alternative?

    If i'm honest i'm looking for something like winrar for mac osx. You know, a great GUI application that will handle pretty much every format. Winrar for OSX is just command line only however :(

    Help needed please! :)
     
    Captain Fail, Mar 21, 2009
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  2. Khris

    Khris Yes I am better than you!

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    Unrarx works just fine.
     
    Khris, Mar 21, 2009
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  3. Captain Fail

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    For both formats, or just for .rar files?
     
    Captain Fail, Mar 21, 2009
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  4. Khris

    Khris Yes I am better than you!

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    Leopard handles zip files on it's own without 3rd party software.
     
    Khris, Mar 21, 2009
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  5. xenon2k9

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    Unarchiver work well too.
     
    xenon2k9, Mar 21, 2009
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  6. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Unrarx is great for .rar files, and hasn't let me down yet. ;)

    Mac OS X has a build in .zip "un-zipper" as a member already mentioned, and works great! :)
     
    Colton, Mar 21, 2009
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  7. Captain Fail

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    Cheers guys! Rep! :)
     
    Captain Fail, Mar 22, 2009
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    Stuffit Expander is Pr0 :p
     
    Tolkannn, Mar 22, 2009
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    Unarchiver didn't work well for me when the rar files are password protected. I advise you to go with unrarx. I've been using it for a couple pf months and it just does the work.
     
    Luke1708, Mar 22, 2009
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