

Surely a company that has proprietary ownership of the Stuffit format(s) could a least maintain a commercial product that that can can Open ALL the crazy formats they have produced over the years.įinally a warning: ZIP, RAR, GZIP and the many other loss-less compression formats should never be run though stuffit ONLY perhaps if a tested uncorrupted backup exits, the likelihood of corruption of by stuffit, of these open compression formats is extremely high. I maintain an old OS 7, OS 8 and OS 9 Macs (with comparable OLD versions of stuffit) for the purpose of opening old stuffit archives. New Stuffit products often cannot open stuffit archives produced by older versions of Stuffit.

Free and fast is the primary reason.4 answers Top answer: Keka is available as a free download from their homepage or as a 2 purchase from. Instances of corrupted stuffit archives are common to the Mac community. Keka, The Unarchiver, and BetterZip are probably your best bets out of the 4 options considered.
RAR EXPANDER MAC OSX RAR
RAR Expander also features AppleScript support, and includes a few useful example scripts for expanding multiple archives at once. It uses the official unRAR library internally so it is fully compatible with archives produced by WinRAR.

It supports both single and multi-part archives, and has support for password-protected archives as well. Having dealt with the whole Stuffit line for a decade or so (yeah I'm a old Mac guy) I have found it can produce corrupt archives, leading to costly re-production of projects. RAR Expander extracts the files contained in RAR archives. It has failed decompress RAR files for me and my clients years. Stuffit Expander IS *NOT* a reliable RAR expansion tool.
