How to use rar files on mac5/21/2023 I believe the Unarchiver can do this, and so can MacPAR deLuxe. Just turn on 'throw away files after decompression' in your favorite file decompresser if files hanging around bothers you so much. I look forward to any comments from the current and past developers of stuffit - they have a lot too answer for. Use rapidshare or usenet, or really any method of downloading besides torrents, and the need for RARs becomes evident. Surely a company that has proprietary ownership of the Stuffit format(s) could a least maintain a commercial product that that can can Open ALL the crazy formats they have produced over the years.įinally a warning: ZIP, RAR, GZIP and the many other loss-less compression formats should never be run though stuffit ONLY perhaps if a tested uncorrupted backup exits, the likelihood of corruption of by stuffit, of these open compression formats is extremely high. I maintain an old OS 7, OS 8 and OS 9 Macs (with comparable OLD versions of stuffit) for the purpose of opening old stuffit archives. New Stuffit products often cannot open stuffit archives produced by older versions of Stuffit. Instances of corrupted stuffit archives are common to the Mac community. ![]() ![]() Having dealt with the whole Stuffit line for a decade or so (yeah I'm a old Mac guy) I have found it can produce corrupt archives, leading to costly re-production of projects. It has failed decompress RAR files for me and my clients years. Stuffit Expander IS *NOT* a reliable RAR expansion tool.
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