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What’s a good way to extract .rar files on the Mac?

Please recommend a nice software which will work on Lion. Default one is extracting immediately after I double click and does not support RAR, which is essential.

Would be nice if software can first browse the archive and then let me extract it.

Commercial software recommendations are mostly welcomed.

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Zipeg is free and it seems like a good choice for you. Here is a summary of the features from their website:

✓ popular: .zip, .rar, .7z, .tar, .gz, .tgz, .bzip2, .iso, .cbr, .cbz formats;

✓ rare: .arj, .lha .lzh, .cpio, .rpm, .chm, .z, .war, .ear

✓ decrypts password protected .zip and .rar files (strong AES encryption).

✓ auto-magically combines and opens multipart .zip and .rar files.

✓ shows content of archive and allow you to select what to extract.

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BetterZip and Pacifist look like what you're interested in.

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  • > Pacifist is not yet compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” though
    – slhck
    Jul 30, 2011 at 9:07
  • Thanks @slhck. I spent about as long to research for this as the OP, searching for "zip" on iusethis ;)
    – Daniel Beck
    Jul 30, 2011 at 15:00
  • A strong vote for BetterZip, IMO substantially better UI and usabiity than the free alternatives justify the price... Jul 30, 2011 at 15:27
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The Unarchiver

It doesn't support looking inside archives, but it's free, simple enough and works with tons of formats.

the unarchiver

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  • I would prefer something that will browse first, like Winrar with GUI
    – Pablo
    Jul 29, 2011 at 17:11
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Try Springy.

The list of supported archive and disk image types includes ZIP, TAR, RAR, 7-ZIP, TGZ, TBZ, PAX, CPIO, CPGZ, JAR, SIT, DMG, ISO... and more. Future releases will include more types in this list. Also allows you to browse archives before extracting them.

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  • Thanks Mahendru, will try. Looking forward to see other opinions and recommendations.
    – Pablo
    Jul 29, 2011 at 14:23

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