BetterZip is a better zip
With zip support built into OS X a third-party compression utility has to bring something special to the table, and BetterZip does. Basically it allows you to open and inspect archives without expanding the whole thing first. This can be useful if you only want a few of the files that are compressed within an archive. It also does compression naturally, including encryption, splitting large archives, and stripping out Mac specific hidden files to make archives more cross-platform..BetterZip supports a bunch of formats which should cover just about anything you'll run into on the net: ZIP, SIT, TAR, GZip, BZip2, RAR, 7-Zip, CPIO, ARJ, LZH/LHA, JAR, WAR, CAB, ISO, CHM, RPM, DEB, NSIS, BIN, HQX, DD. Finally, the developer has also put together a great Quick Look plugin that supports most of the same formats.
BetterZip is normally $19.95 and a demo is available but as it happens it's on sale at MacUpdate Promo until Monday evening for half-off ($9.95)
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With zip support built into OS X a third-party compression utility has to bring something special to the table, and BetterZip does....
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Sign me up for The Unarchiver. It has a "delete on finish" feature that's the only reason for using DropStuff/Unstuffit.
See it at
http://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/
You can set Archive Utility.app in Leopard to delete on completion (System->Library->CoreServices)
December 26 2007 at 5:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHow is this compared to Stuffit Deluxe? I know it's drastically cheaper than Stuffit Deluxe, but what about it's functionality?
December 25 2007 at 4:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWell, if BetterZip can allow me to control where I'm unarchiving to, then it's in like Flynn. I'm willing to drop $10 to give it a shot. Plus, I'm having some troubles with the Unarchiver at the moment.
December 25 2007 at 2:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@Pbryanw: I don't think you can extract individual files from the Quick Look view, even with BetterZip installed. I think you can extract the whole archive in QL or extract individual files by launching BetterZip and picking them from there. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
December 24 2007 at 7:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYe, you're correct. When I said archived files I meant the whole archive. Individual files can't be unarchived using quicklook view. Maybe in a future release. Thanks for the correction.
December 24 2007 at 8:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThere should be a ? after future release. Original version makes it sound like I have something to do with the program - I don't - I just think it's a good piece of software.
December 24 2007 at 8:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt sounds nice, but $20 sounds very overpriced. Also, Quick Look can expect .zip archives with a free plug-in.
December 24 2007 at 5:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe Unarchiver is just for decompressing as far as I know, BetterZip creates archives too. The plugin for Quick Look mentioned above was created by the author of BetterZip and made free by his generosity. It's indeed a good plugin. Concerning RAR, I think BetterZip requires an external program to create them (and the program costs an additional $30, if I'm not mistaken).
December 24 2007 at 7:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWell it's $10 for the next 5 hours, so not too badly priced if you buy it now. Also if you have the Betterzip quicklook plugin and Betterzip installed you can extract archived files from quicklook view.
The Betterzip quicklook plugin is free - you don't have to buy Betterzip to use it, plus it supports more formats then just zip so you can quicklook .tar files for example (and more).
why the hell would I want to pay for something that does not support RAR?!
December 24 2007 at 4:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt does support RAR. It says that in the article.
December 24 2007 at 5:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI vastly prefer BetterZip to the Unarchiver. It's the closest thing to WinZip/WinRAR that we have on the Mac right now.
December 24 2007 at 3:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe Unarciver also has problems expanding split RARs...
December 24 2007 at 3:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe Unarchiver is a "better-er" zip!
December 24 2007 at 3:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe Unarchiver is way bettar. And open source.
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
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