The Unarchiver can decompress many file types, so rejoice, because you can actually open DiskDoubler, Compact Pro and PackIt files now. If you happen to have saved those files onto a hard drive socked away for safekeeping, today you are hard-pressed to open those files.

You never need to open the program, it just works in the background unarchiving stuff.' That's a glowing recommendation, so I put The Unarchiver to my own test.īack in the old days, it was common practice to archive files by compressing them so that they fit on a floppy disk or CD. I use it because the built-in program is very limited in what it can create and open.

I haven't found an archive it can't open. When I was asked to review The Unarchiver 2.7, a free decompression utility from Dag Ågren/WAHa, I thought 'Who needs this program, when Mac OS X opens most common archive formats?' I quickly found out that thousands of people rely on The Unarchiver to do tasks that lie beyond the scope of built-in Archive Utility.app found in OS X.įirst I spoke to a loyal user, Barry Porter, an Apple Consultants Network member from Delray Beach, Fla.

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