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Compression software recommendation
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Hi all, I'm new to Macs and just started using a old MacBook Pro 3,2. I'm an avid Windows user and just looking to try something different. I'm looking for some recommendations on a compression app that uncompresses zip/rar/etc files. I've tried a few already like StuffIt and Unarchiver. For the life of me, I could not figure out how to find/change the option where it uncompresses the archive in a specified folder WITHOUT creating a new folder. For Unarchiver, the option is already set at "extract archives to: Same folder as the archive" which is fine but it creates a new folder named after the archive filename. I do not want that. All I want is for it to uncompress the archive to without creating a new folder.
Any recommendations on an Mac app that'll work? I am currently on OSX Lion all updated.
For the record, I did try to search the forums but to no avail.
TIA!
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OSX does have a built-in decompression utility. You can rightclick on a file, and open with "Archive Utility", which is the default anyway if there are no other decompressors present.
It's located in the CoreServices directory if you were curious.
/Mac HD/System/Library/CoreServices/Archive Utility.app
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The MacOS Archive Utility can open zip, bzip2, cbz, cpgz, cpio, gz, tar, tgz, tbz, tbz2, jar, compress, and uuencode.
For rar files, you need a third-party utility. I use UnRarX, even though it's a bit old and dusty. I have no idea if it works in Lion. There's also oldie-but-goodie, Stuffit Expander. Both of those utilities will also open password-protected zip and rar files. MacOS cannot open password-protected zips.
As for the new folder issue...What you're really looking for is a "Delete after expanding" setting, because that's what's really happening. The archive is expanded into a new folder and then the original archive is deleted. Personally, I prefer not to get rid of the original until I know it expanded cleanly.
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I use the command line unrar tool. RAR files seem to be the only file format I come across semi-regularly that OS X does not natively support decompressing.
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You could also try the Mac version of WinZip.
Steve
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I'm sorry I don't have a solution, but this thread is baffling to me:
Doesn't anybody read the original post anymore?
Originally Posted by GQ Ukyo 
For the life of me, I could not figure out how to find/change the option where it uncompresses the archive in a specified folder WITHOUT creating a new folder. For Unarchiver, the option is already set at "extract archives to: Same folder as the archive" which is fine but it creates a new folder named after the archive filename. I do not want that. All I want is for it to uncompress the archive to without creating a new folder.
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The command line version of unrar has an option to not maintain the structure of the archive by creating folders as needed, but of course it only handles rar files.
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