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The Unarchiver (available on the Mac App Store) is the Jack-of-All-Trades decompressor of choice for me on my Mac these days, and can actually handle quite a fe

by mproud 3y ago

The Unarchiver (available on the Mac App Store) is the Jack-of-All-Trades decompressor of choice for me on my Mac these days, and can actually handle quite a few versions of StuffIt archives.

vr46 3y ago
It's good, but I've shifted over to Keka (https://github.com/aonez/Keka https://github.com/aonez/Keka) which is much more modern and versatile (and compresses)
- mistrial9 3y ago
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  - fao_ 3y ago
    As someone foreign to the macos ecosystem, what... makes you say that? This Github looks perfectly innocuous.
    - mistrial9 3y ago
      > "_SOURCE_" = "The source code of Keka 1.0 will not be public due some legal issues. Legal support is needed, if you can help the project, please get in contact on info@keka.io or the Project page on the official Keka website. Any help is welcome."; why am I flagged, exactly?
- booi 3y ago
  Another vote for Keka! Simple, easy to use, finder integrated, open source and modern. Love it.
  - josephcsible 3y ago
    Keka isn't open source. It's not even source-available! https://github.com/aonez/Keka/blob/fb4292000cf946e6a022d02819048542a941c936/Translations-macOS/en.lproj/Credits.strings#L13 https://github.com/aonez/Keka/blob/fb4292000cf946e6a022d0281... > The source code of Keka 1.0 will not be public due some legal issues. Legal support is needed, if you can help the project, please get in contact on info@keka.io or the Project page on the official Keka website. Any help is welcome.
    - booi 3y ago
      huh... was it open source before? I could have sworn it was when I first started using it years ago
dylan604 3y ago
StuffIt Expander though was such a common thing in its day. A Mac without StuffIt and Expander were just broken.
netruk44 3y ago
My problem with Unarchiver, Keka, and most other "decompression apps" available on MacOS is that none of them offer any kind of browsing functionality or the ability to select specific files to extract from your archive. They seem to focus on only extracting everything, and sometimes charge $4.99 for that limited functionality (looking at you Keka). For that reason, these days I tend to stick with 7-Zip running through CrossOver for my archiving needs.

by mproud 3y ago

The Unarchiver (available on the Mac App Store) is the Jack-of-All-Trades decompressor of choice for me on my Mac these days, and can actually handle quite a few versions of StuffIt archives.

vr46 3y ago

It's good, but I've shifted over to Keka (https://github.com/aonez/Keka https://github.com/aonez/Keka) which is much more modern and versatile (and compresses)

mistrial9 3y ago
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- fao_ 3y ago
  As someone foreign to the macos ecosystem, what... makes you say that? This Github looks perfectly innocuous.
  - mistrial9 3y ago
    > "_SOURCE_" = "The source code of Keka 1.0 will not be public due some legal issues. Legal support is needed, if you can help the project, please get in contact on info@keka.io or the Project page on the official Keka website. Any help is welcome."; why am I flagged, exactly?
booi 3y ago
Another vote for Keka! Simple, easy to use, finder integrated, open source and modern. Love it.
- josephcsible 3y ago
  Keka isn't open source. It's not even source-available! https://github.com/aonez/Keka/blob/fb4292000cf946e6a022d02819048542a941c936/Translations-macOS/en.lproj/Credits.strings#L13 https://github.com/aonez/Keka/blob/fb4292000cf946e6a022d0281... > The source code of Keka 1.0 will not be public due some legal issues. Legal support is needed, if you can help the project, please get in contact on info@keka.io or the Project page on the official Keka website. Any help is welcome.
  - booi 3y ago
    huh... was it open source before? I could have sworn it was when I first started using it years ago

dylan604 3y ago

StuffIt Expander though was such a common thing in its day. A Mac without StuffIt and Expander were just broken.

netruk44 3y ago

My problem with Unarchiver, Keka, and most other "decompression apps" available on MacOS is that none of them offer any kind of browsing functionality or the ability to select specific files to extract from your archive. They seem to focus on only extracting everything, and sometimes charge $4.99 for that limited functionality (looking at you Keka). For that reason, these days I tend to stick with 7-Zip running through CrossOver for my archiving needs.