Likewise the RAR file here I can open that up as well. On the desktop I will select one of these files, Unarchive, and you can see here it opened this up which is an archive which contains a font. Let's just do the Command O standard open. Just run Unarchiver and you can select one of the unarchived options. You can see how to go about opening them. So having all these file types and then you can have extraction preferences and even advanced preferences in here so you can set that all up. sit files and being able to open them up using the utility here and not having to get the most recent version of Stuffit on all my Macs is very useful. Stuffit was very popular in the nineties for Mac users so I've got a lot of stuff archived in. There are all sorts of other formats here. For instance, RAR Archives are something that you may find from time to time on the internet and it is very difficult to open them. That's why you really want this here in case you want these files. You can see that the list is pretty large, much larger than would be opened by the regular Archiver utility. It will recognize then that these file formats will be opened by Unarchiver on your Mac. Once you have it installed you can launch it pretty easily and the first time you launch it, it is going to give you this big list of archived formats. So you find it pretty easily just by searching for it in the Mac App Store and then you can download it and add it to your apps. It is available in the Mac App Store for free. Well, there is a pretty standard utility that Mac users have been going to for years. zip or something and you need to decompress it. Refer to MacMost episodes 167 and 517.īut what happens if you get a file that isn't a standard format like. It is pretty easy to compress files and to decompress them in Mac OS 10. On today's episode let's look at the Unarchiver. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 930: The Unarchiver at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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