anyone know of any free programs for a mac that will open .rar files?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:36 (fifteen years ago)
unrarx
― this is awful I want Togo home (harbl), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:37 (fifteen years ago)
rar expander
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:38 (fifteen years ago)
7zip
― guammls (QE II), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:38 (fifteen years ago)
scratch that; didn't read the "mac" part
thanking u
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:40 (fifteen years ago)
StuffIt Expander, iirc
― A Memorable Fancy (Abbott), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:40 (fifteen years ago)
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html or unrarx.
― caek, Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:42 (fifteen years ago)
this sounds kind of ridiculous but i use the command line for this. it just seems to work better and faster. and unrarx has this habit of being reallllly sloooow over a network.
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
uzip that, change to the rar directory you've just unzipped, type:
sudo install -c -o $USER unrar /bin
then to unrar anything type
unrar x whatever.rar
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)
i mean "uNzip" that duh
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:48 (fifteen years ago)
I use StuffIt Expander.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:49 (fifteen years ago)
iirc stuffit expander came with my macbook?
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:56 (fifteen years ago)
first thing i uninstall
― caek, Friday, 26 February 2010 00:14 (fifteen years ago)
why?
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Friday, 26 February 2010 00:17 (fifteen years ago)
i would keep it around if it only opened stuffit files, but it always seems to find a way to associate itself with other archives or get launched by something or other. i don't want it to open because it's slow to launch and crashy -- kinda like realplayer was. i haven't seen a stuffit archive for three or four years.
it's not installed by default on os x any more iirc.
― caek, Friday, 26 February 2010 00:22 (fifteen years ago)
my new os x machine comes with a thing called "stuffit standard 9.0" but when I open .rars it uses UnRarX which I ported over from the previous machine
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Friday, 26 February 2010 00:23 (fifteen years ago)