The Unarchiver 4.0 - Open any archive in seconds

@chrismessina it's definitely in great and loving hands :)

@chrismessina @ua_philka Surely you mean great and loving paws.

@chrismessina @ua_philka This and the AppCleaner app are among the first set of apps I download on any fresh macOS install these days. The latter being not updated and sporting an old UI, I was about to ping MacPaw to ask if they'd consider grabbing that app too. Then I discovered their CleanMyMac 3 already include such a feature 😛 https://macpaw.com/support/clean...

@dc_devotion Congratulations on the launch! Is there any notable difference feature-wise between standalone and MAS? Other than seemingly needing to manually set via contextual menu for the MAS version.

@onelargetea Thanks! Yep, you're right - MAS version requires you to do some manual work, otherwise they pretty much the same.

@chrismessina @dc_devotion I'm not quite sure what the UI refresh is, since I stopped using The Unarchiver long ago, but I would like to know what features will be added to make The Unarchiver stand out in the crowd again. Any planned support for contextual menu operation and/or services? Watch folders? Partial uncompression (so the zipped file won't be deleted when the archive is uncomplete)? Internal checks for malicious threats inside archives?

@t55 Thanks for sharing your ideas and and we'd love to hear more on how you think The Unarchiver should be different. As of now we've been focusing on what The Unarchiver does best - being a single tool you need to open any archive hassle free.

@dc_devotion There's a couple of Mac tools that are great at that: open any archive hassle free. TU is free, so that's a definite plus, but an app like Keka has the same qualities, is extremely fast and compresses files too. The Unarchiver can use some of the playfulness of Gemini or Clean My Mac. That, and a bunch of new functionalities. Like the ones I mentioned above. Or something cool like remembering the password used to unlock the archive.

@_n1ks Thanks, man!

@mosrodofficial That's very kind of you! =)

@stevenjames BetterZip is better. 😉

@stevenjames Can confirm. Keka opens really huge zips smoothly, while this thing is helpless

@stevenjames @metaword We're working on improving how The Unarchiver handles huge zips. I know it's a long shot, but I'd appreciate if you could email us some links to the files that you had trouble with. support@macpaw.com

@macpaw @dc_devotion Hi, unfortunately I cannot provide a link to that file I had trouble with. It was an archived backup (≈500GB) from Backblaze.

@metaword The size is also helpful. Could you tell, at least roughly, the number of files inside of the archive and the biggest number of nested folders. That will help us build a test zip for the case =)