Help!!! .rar files

[ShayanAgha]

Hi,
i've recently purchased an apply macbook pro.

Is it possible to run files with a " .rar " extension on this machine?>

if yes... could somebody guide me!
thanks

 

[edesignuk]

UnRarX.

 

[cwedl]

UnRarX.

Definately the best choice.

 

[epochblue]

As an alternative that opens a lot more than RAR files, you might like The Unarchiver.

 

[Benjamin]

As an alternative that opens a lot more than RAR files, you might like The Unarchiver.

I was going to suggest it, added plus is you can probably uninstall stuffit, unless you are heavy into .sitx files.

 

[epochblue]

I was going to suggest it, added plus is you can probably uninstall stuffit, unless you are heavy into .sitx files.

Bah....StuffIt needs to go away. Does anyone really come across a lot of .sitx files anyway?

 

[Sdashiki]

Bah....StuffIt needs to go away. Does anyone really come across a lot of .sitx files anyway?

.zip, though loathed by mac users years ago, has given way and become a defacto standard.

.sit isnt as supported in Windows, AFAIK.

making .zip, all the better.

 

[phidauex]

As an alternative that opens a lot more than RAR files, you might like The Unarchiver.

Another vote for Unarchvier. UnRarX works fine, but it only does RAR files, and it is basically a front-end for a command line tool. Not that that's bad or anything, its just that Unarchiver really has a mac-like feel, and nicely integrates with the OS. I don't even notice that its there anymore, doing its thing, opening my archives.

-sam

 

[pengu]

definitely go with TheUnarchiver. unfortunately it has an issue with password protected stuffit files, but otherwise its a champ.

stuffit has a windows version (of the deluxe too) but i lost my love for stuffit when osx included zip/gzip/bzip/tar extraction, and yet stuffit INSISTED on changing my associations every time it opened.

 

[epochblue]

definitely go with TheUnarchiver. unfortunately it has an issue with password protected stuffit files, but otherwise its a champ.

stuffit has a windows version (of the deluxe too) but i lost my love for stuffit when osx included zip/gzip/bzip/tar extraction, and yet stuffit INSISTED on changing my associations every time it opened.

Yeah - apps that take over things like that make me INSANE. That's the reason I'll never, under any circumstances, install RealPlayer. If I can only watch a video that's in the real format, tough, I'll just not watch it.

 

[siurpeeman]

Bah....StuffIt needs to go away. Does anyone really come across a lot of .sitx files anyway?

i didn't realize stuffit was so hated. is there a reason for this?

 

[epochblue]

i didn't realize stuffit was so hated. is there a reason for this?

...but i lost my love for stuffit when osx included zip/gzip/bzip/tar extraction, and yet stuffit INSISTED on changing my associations every time it opened.

^^ That's the reason I hate it.

Also, for a little while, they were shipping StuffIt with a contextual menu item that crashed the Finder--that was brilliant. However, I mostly don't like them because I find their product to be irrelevant. The .sitx filetype doesn't provide much value over things like .rar or .zip, so what's the point?

 

[Benjamin]

i didn't realize stuffit was so hated. is there a reason for this?

well to me it has gotten bloated and then the move from compressed files to disk images when we went from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, sorta made sit and sitx pointless, plus Mac OS X has built in compression utilities.

*edit oh yeah and the contextual menu item that crashed the Finder that epochblue mentions above. lol oh those days...

 

[cubbie5150]

Yeah - apps that take over things like that make me INSANE. That's the reason I'll never, under any circumstances, install RealPlayer. If I can only watch a video that's in the real format, tough, I'll just not watch it.

Ditto here... I can't think of the last time I've watched/listened to anything w/ Real Player...probably not since the late '90's!! I do use Stuffitt, as I'm new to OS X I thought that was pretty much my only freeware choice to archive/unpack pretty much everyhting I'll run into. Haven't run into any issues so far, so I guess I'll keep using it...