It will even open other kinds of files, like ISO and BIN disc images, some Windows. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. What does The Unarchiver do? The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder.
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The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for 'BOMArchiveHelper.app', the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. I don't want other app as replacement, I love the. I have the latest iOS Macbook Pro late 2011. (I followed the steps, every Zip, RAR and other compressed files are set to open with The unarchiver as DEFAULT) Still getting that same preference pop up and no files are extracting.
The message says: Setting The unarchiver as the default app. It’s been discussed as an alternative when you have to unRAR and open RAR files in Mac OS and it can open virtually any archive format you might come across. Unarchiver is a well-known solution to all kinds of archive formats available on Mac. RAR files cannot be opened using native programs in Windows or Mac OS X, but can be opened or “unrar-ed” using free third-party applications that support the RAR file format.
RAR files are compressed files similar to ZIP files that consume less storage and can be transferred to other locations more quickly than uncompressed files.