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Work · June 16, 2018

The Unarchiver 4.0

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The Unarchiver 4.0 launched on June 16, 2018 with 309 votes, #46 of 2,654 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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In plain words

The Unarchiver is a macOS app that extracts files from compressed archives. It supports RAR files and numerous other archive formats, offering broader compatibility than macOS's built-in extraction tool. Designed for Mac users who frequently work with compressed files, it enables quick access to archived content across many file types.

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From the sources

The Unarchiver is the only app you need to open RAR on Mac. It’s times more powerful than the native macOS utility and supports infinitely more archive formats.

Download The Unarchiver by MacPaw Way Ltd on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like The Unarchiver.

Then they had a problem with 3.11.2, which they think they fixed in 3.11.3. However there are more problems with version 3.11.3. Before the last two versions, I could choose ‘Compress “some directory”’ from the finder menu, and then few minutes later I could uncompress it by using “The Unarchiver”. Now, randomly I get a notofication about the encoding the compressed file uses. So i am temporarily using command line tools to do the operations. BTW, there seems to be another bug that comes up if you select more than about 250 files from Finder and invoke “The Unarchiver”. Then somehow “The Unarchiver” memory gets corrupted, and the menus no longer work(e.g. Quit button disappears.) and the…from apps.apple.com

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