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UHA is rather rare, but not unheard of. And, if you were to add it, this would be the
only Mac app to 
handle that file type.

I've turned up two ".mzp" archives on the web this week -- first time I've come across
that file type.

The NFO that came with one of the files says: "Notes: Extract or mount the mzp archive
with WinArchiver."

Being 100% Mac-oriented, I can't use PC/Win to expand the file, so found you guys.
Can you do it??

I will send you one of the files, to practice on, but only at your request. One is
65 MB and the other  is 214 MB.

Thanks a lot.

John

Figure out what's in InstallShield CAB files and unpack them.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Attempting to extract a file compressed with ACE
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected the archive to extract.
Instead I receive the error: "The contents of the file 'Blumchen - Die Welt
Gehört Dir (2000).ace' can not be extracted with this program.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
The Unarchiver version 1.5
OSX 10.4.8 Intel Macbook Pro.

Please provide any additional information below.

No extra error information visible.

http://www.mking.com/download/demonstar/demonshr.exe

Using lsar 0.3 (Windows) on the above installer EXE produces pages of scrolling output
like the following:

*** Uncaught exception <CSEndOfFileException> *** Attempted to read past the end of
file "C:\Download\demonshr.exe" (XADFileHandle).
*** Uncaught exception <XADException> *** Data is corrupted

I have no idea if the contents are in a format which can be extracted or not, I was
just trying some random installers for kicks.

http://b1.org/

I have a sitx file that was created several years ago, which contains a Mac OS 9 System
Folder. Stuffit Expander does successfully extract the contents.

The Archive Browser says "File is not fully supported", and shows an empty archive.

lsar detects that it is a Stuffit X archive, but then prints "Archive parsing failed!
(File is not fully supported.)" and exits.

It is not encrypted at all, and was probably created using DropStuff 7.0.3 on Mac OS
9. So it seems like that at least the contents should be able to be listed, even if
not every file may be extracted.

The file has been posted at http://www.mikerichardson.name/SystemFolder.sitx (73 MB),
please let me know when it has been downloaded so I can delete it from the server.

StuffIt X has a custom JPEG compressor. This one consists of huge amounts
of code, and I do not currently have the time to find out how it works.

Any help here would be appreciated.

I assume the summary is simple enough. Support for iso and other disk image formats
exists. I would like to avoid having such things mounted as disks and instead just
extract their contents.

(For some reason I can't seem to choose Enhancement from the combo box above when entering
this, so "defect" it is.)

I have received a .MOU archive file from someone, and as it turns out, this format
is controlled by WinMount, which has no Mac version whatsoever.

I don't really care about the format (and my immediate solution is to ask them for
a zip while lambasting them about using obscure archive formats which nobody will be
able to open) but I figured I would create the feature request for it, in case anyone
else was searching around for it.

Unfortunately I don't have a sample myself, as the file I did receive is confidential.

.pkg is just a bundle containing other archives, but it would be useful to figure out
a way to handle accepting directories and then return the files inside identified as
archives.

libicu does not seem to support many Mac encodings. Replacing non-Mac encodings with
Mac ones (like x-mac-japanese) should probably not happen when this is the case, but
figuring out when these are supported is a bit tricky.

Disk Copy 6.1 and later generates compressed images in the NDIF format. This can include
two compression algorithms: KenCode and an Apple-specific algorithm. Both of these
algorithms store critical data in the 'bcem' resource in the resource fork.

It would be nice if there was a support to "convert" such images into UNcompressed
NDIF images (where the resource fork does not keep any useful information). Disk Utility
can do this, but the KenCode format is undocumented (there is an ADC compression scheme
documented at http://www.macdisk.com/dmgen.php but I do not know if it was implemented
as early as Disk Copy 6.x).

Disk Copy 6.0 (which was never distributed much, and therefore almost never used) also
has a compression scheme but it appears much simpler and does not use the resource
fork. I don't know if it is worthwhile implementing this.

It can be extremely useful to have output in a format that can readily be re-translated
back to a Macintosh filesystem.  (The old Stuffit Expander for Windows had this capability.)

While AppleDouble is handy, it lacks the type/creator information that would be necessary
to use the file in Sheepshaver or Basilisk (which stores such data in a ".finf" subdirectory).

This is a compressed filesystem that seems to be getting more popular, and it would
be nice if it was implemented since I'm beginning to see a few files around that use
it.

No error reported, the progress window appears for a moment and then vanishes.

I'm using version 2.3 under Snow Leopard. When decompressing large rar
archives, the entire system becomes unresponsive due to the excessive I/O.
Would it be possible to deprioritize the process? Under OS X, nice'ing a
process also affects the I/O, so I now just run `nice -n 15 unrar ...` from
the terminal to avoid this issue.

It would be very useful if The Unrachiver could clone metadata from the archive file
such as 
Spotlight Comments and More Info to the files and folders that are extracted from that
archive. This 
way extracted files will not become unassociated from their origin and could still
be easily found 
with Spotlight or any other tagging/searching software.

The version of Unarchiver I just downloaded does not seem to decompress
files compressed by DiskDoubler 3.7.7. It returns a message with "Unknown
data format". if one continues, a blank decompressed file is produced.

I am running Mac OSX 10.5.6. I see that the Preferences includes a check
box for

DiskDoubler Archive extensions dd, DD.

Is there something I am doing wrong or does Unarchiver not decompress
DiskDoubler 3.7.7 files? If so, any suggestions on how to decompress these
files?

MANY thanks,

S.

This format seems to gain wider usage.

format "spec":
http://xtremsplit.fr/xtremsplit-developpeurs-format-extension-xtm.html

Does not extract FreeArc .arc format files or the self extracting versions thereof.

http://freearc.org/

Download 1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4arkhlqysnlcjr2/Brain%2BQH.arc
Download 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ztcl6fhygu1hlzf/Brain%2BQH.exe

I just bought the new The Archive Browser and decided to open some SITX files I had
and I couldn't do it to any of them. When I try to open one of them that screen shows:

http://i.imgur.com/rxxAT.png

It shows that error but still opens the file but doesn't show everything inside, only
part of it.

When I try to open the second file, also SITX, it crashes the app.

Give me an email address and I will send the link to download the files, if you want,
but I won't post it in here for everyone.

Thanks

zpaq is a Public Domain format

http://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html

http://kgbarchiver.net/?page=download
http://filext.com/file-extension/kgb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB_Archiver

This appears to be an esoteric compression format, so I'm not sure if it would be worth
it, but I have found a file or two compressed in this format.

Can you add the SHK archive for Apple II / IIgs files?

thanks

I expanded a file named auctex-11.85.tar.gz twice. The first time it was expanded into
a folder 
named auctex-11.85. The second time the destination folder name used was auctex-11-1.85.

Maybe it should be auctex-11.85-1?

it would be nice to add support for the lzip file format. Which is an implementation
of the LZMA algorithm. See: http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html
With this it would be possible to decompress .tar.lz files. Such an sample can be found
here: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/

Hi,

Could you add support for Installer Vise files ?

It'd be very good to be able to extract all files the installer is supposed to install.

I put an exemple attached (inside the "dmg").

Regards

Many Windows executables use .UPX packing. There isn't much software that can extract
this weird format (the commercial PE Editor can), but the packer is open source. It
would be nice if this were implemented.

http://upx.sourceforge.net/ for the packer.

Hi!

Love Unarchiver!

Could you add supprt for TNEF winmail.dat files (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format),
created by Outlook?

Sometimes I am extracting multiple archives from either multiple sources,
Gigabit Network Storage devices or RAID devices which can easily sustain
the IO throughput necessary to have more than one extraction. It would be
nice to have 2 things.

1) Ability to specify a default number of "active" extractions.
2) Ability to click on a queued extraction to "force" start it. Kind of
like how there is a `X` icon on the right to cancel an extraction, if there
also was some kind of play button to start an extraction.

http://homepage.mac.com/wenguangwang/myhome/udf.html
http://www.osta.org/specs/pdf/udf102.pdf
http://www.osta.org/specs/pdf/udf260.pdf

Here the link to the sample file: http://www.mediafire.com/?luxgykm3y1e

The Unarchiver will claim that it's unable to extract certain files and other files
in the archive are 
corrupted. Stuffit Expander, on the other hand, has no problem handling this sample
file.

Support for lzo format would be nice addition.

Library:
http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/

I'm not sure if Microsoft Compress archives work, but these sure don't:

http://cd.textfiles.com/gw2k42/WFW311/

The compressed files have extensions ending with _ . Expand.exe (also in that directory)
is normally used to extract them.

mscompress from ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/mscompress is supposed to work but
doesn't appear to.

Hi! I have a mounted network drive on my osx under /Volumes, but if I check from activity
monitor, unrarring is very slow, just about 4-6 megabytes/sec when it used to be like
20-30 before OSX update.

Same thing with unar from command line, but for example unrar can extract 20-30 megabytes/second
from command line.. (and unrarX) so problem is not in network or drives. Did apple
implement some sort of cache / temp stuff in os x 10.9 which makes it impossible for
unar to extract faster? Does unar have to extract it through some sort of local cache
or something which makes it terribly slow :(

hopefully this will be fixed soon :-)

Stuffit SpaceSaver formats are not implemented. This was used for transparent compression.
The software was shipped with StuffIt Deluxe 3 through 5 (or 6).

Some testcases: http://dec8.info/priv/spacesaver_testcases/ (version 3.5 so far)

There seem to be two variants, a fast and a maximum, but I can't seem to get both to
be created. :(

Would be nice to have SFARK support. SFARK is a compression algorythm for soundfonts
files. support on macosx is almost gone, but many files are compressed using this algorythm.
there used to be informations here: http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm informations
can be retrived using webarchive website:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050212221737/http://melodymachine.com/

You should be able to do it with storm library

http://zezula.net/en/mpq/download.html

it'd help immensely if unarchiver can open mpq files. :)

There's no support for PAR/PAR2 records. This could theoretically be added,
but currently I am not sure I have the time. Therefore, any external help
would be very much appreciated.

For anyone interested in helping out with this: libxad reads data through a
custom callback handler, that implements open/read/seek/close
functionality. Multi-part archives are handled transparently through this,
for instance. A PAR/PAR2 handler could be written that works like the
multi-archive handler but additionally fills in any missing pieces by itself.

I request an enhancement to theunarchiver to provide extraction of files that were backed-up
with Microsoft's Backup Utility under old versions of Windows that are no longer supported.
 I have many files that I cannot recover because Microsoft left me stranded with no
way to recover my files.  It would be great to have a way to recover them on my MAC.

Best Regards,

Joe Payne
[email protected]

lz4
Extremely Fast Compression algorithm

https://code.google.com/p/lz4/
http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2011/05/lz4-explained.html

lz4 is under the BSD 3-Clause License.

Before version 2.3, theunarchiver was successfully unpacking files that first needed
to be 
combined and then unrar'd, such as:

  sample.rar.001
  sample.rar.002

With version 2.3, I now get this message:

  Could not extract the file "<insert file name here>": Error on decrunching

Expected results: Opening sample.rar.001 with theunarchiver successfully concats the
files and 
then unrars the result (just like it used to).

I've attached a couple of sample files (~200kb) to help repro my issue.

XADLZSSHandle is currently implemented as a byte stream. It would make 
more sense to implement it as a normal handle that allows seeking inside the 
current dictionary contents, and might also be faster.

lsar 0.99
on the following sitx archive (500MB)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/59737692/WLKHRD_2AB_2CH_SR_PM_111007.sitx

outputs the following:
WLKHRD_2AB_2CH_SR_PM_111007.sitx: 2012-01-30 15:40:26.956 lsar[65412:707] 4 extra:
64
2012-01-30 15:40:26.957 lsar[65412:707] unknown tag
StuffIt X
Archive parsing failed! (File is not fully supported.)

Can you take a look at it?
Thanks