The Unarchiver: Bom Voyage ArchiveHelper

unarchiver_icon.pngThe Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for the venerable “BOMArchiveHelper.app”, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than OS X by default, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with foreign language versions of other operating systems.

The Unarchiver fits right into OS X and is easy to use. All that’s required is a simple application installation, then choosing the set archive file-types that it will open by default. Viola, you now have an unarchived file, a task done very well by the aptly named “Unarchiver”. Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many filetypes. The Unarchiver is Open Source under the GPL License and is available as a free download.

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11 Responses to “The Unarchiver: Bom Voyage ArchiveHelper”

  1. The Unarchiver: Bom Voyage ArchiveHelper at 3motions.net on March 27th, 2007 12:54 pm

    [...] Originally from MacApper by Jordan Chark reBlogged by Simon Menke on Mar 27, 2007, 6:00PM [...]

  2. alej744 on March 27th, 2007 5:32 pm

    yes!! no more StuffIt!!

  3. yj on March 28th, 2007 2:09 am

    “Viola”?!

  4. Nick Cotton on March 29th, 2007 1:47 am

    Does anyone know if it supports password protected zip files? This is currently my number one annoyance of the built-in helper.

  5. Alec Feld on March 29th, 2007 10:07 am

    Nick, it does.

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    [...] previously reviewed The Unarchiver, a free replacement for the built-in archive manager inside OS X that could handle [...]

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    [...] rar, tgz, or any other compressed file for that matter — you can do that from Finder or the previously mentioned Unarchiver. It will, however juice compressed files from within other files, for example a zipped [...]

  8. B-rad on May 27th, 2009 5:36 pm

    Can someone explain how to use unarchiver? i have a mac, i downloaded it but i don’t know how to USE it to convert the torrents i have downloaded, where do you put the file? and yes obviously im a noob

  9. B-rad on May 27th, 2009 6:00 pm

    Nevermind guys i figured it out

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