Any price, for Mac. I'm using Lion.
I've tried so many, right now I have both Archiver, Stuffit and Keka.
I enjoy using Keka to compress files to 7zip (or whatever other format), because it's the most easiest out of all them. It's updated frequently and gave me a really good compression size that Archiver didn't (and Archiver didn't feel as intuitive to use). I still think Stuffit and the built-in archiving utility are the most intuitive in regards to just clicking a file and having to uncompress, but I need something that sort of does all of this or at least give me a common verdict as to which one I should use!
I enjoy Archiver and it's features and interface, but it's just not as simple to use and when I tried using it to compress I could only do one thing at a time and if it was interuptted the files that it was compressing were in a hidden duplicate folder that didn't get deleted, so that wastes space. And the end compressed size was the same as all the files I was compressing combined, not good. Keka gives me a slider option from just packaging with no compression to completely compressing it as much as it can so it definitely wins in terms of actual compression size and whatnot. But I like Archivers little thumbnail icons it has for practically every file type.
I don't know! Should I just keep all?!? Use Archiver to uncompress and Keka to compress? That honestly seems like the easiest to me. I just wish there was a program as easy and simple to use as the built-in utility, but with more features, options and compatibility. Winrar and 7zip on Windows win this one hands down and I wish there was a way to just use 7zip (in particular) in a robust way on the mac, without all these 3rd party 'ports' you could say. Does anyone know of one that is command-line based even? I would use that if it gave me options of how much to compress files and whatnot.
I've tried so many, right now I have both Archiver, Stuffit and Keka.
I enjoy using Keka to compress files to 7zip (or whatever other format), because it's the most easiest out of all them. It's updated frequently and gave me a really good compression size that Archiver didn't (and Archiver didn't feel as intuitive to use). I still think Stuffit and the built-in archiving utility are the most intuitive in regards to just clicking a file and having to uncompress, but I need something that sort of does all of this or at least give me a common verdict as to which one I should use!
I enjoy Archiver and it's features and interface, but it's just not as simple to use and when I tried using it to compress I could only do one thing at a time and if it was interuptted the files that it was compressing were in a hidden duplicate folder that didn't get deleted, so that wastes space. And the end compressed size was the same as all the files I was compressing combined, not good. Keka gives me a slider option from just packaging with no compression to completely compressing it as much as it can so it definitely wins in terms of actual compression size and whatnot. But I like Archivers little thumbnail icons it has for practically every file type.
I don't know! Should I just keep all?!? Use Archiver to uncompress and Keka to compress? That honestly seems like the easiest to me. I just wish there was a program as easy and simple to use as the built-in utility, but with more features, options and compatibility. Winrar and 7zip on Windows win this one hands down and I wish there was a way to just use 7zip (in particular) in a robust way on the mac, without all these 3rd party 'ports' you could say. Does anyone know of one that is command-line based even? I would use that if it gave me options of how much to compress files and whatnot.