ArchCommander
Compression & Decompression
Only for Mac
$3.99
ArchCommander is a tool that helps you manage your archive files.
It allows you to perform many operations without unpacking the entire archive file. That includes:
* browsing files and folders
* viewing files from archives in Quick Look
* opening and editing files from archives in other applications
* searching for files in archives
And of course, you can unpack selected files or everything, and create brand new archives as well as adding or removing files from existing archives (if they support modification).
Unpacking and create archives is also possible directly from the Finder - just select the files and use the context menu to select the operation.
The archives can be encrypted and protected with a password.
If you have an archive file created on an operating system that does not use Unicode you can open it in ArchCommander and select the right characters encoding for file names (available for arj, lha/lzh, zip, rar and tar archives).
ArchCommander delivers its Quick Look plugin that allows you to display archive files content directly from the Finder - just hit a space bar.
ArchCommander supports the following archive formats for read-write (browse, unpack, create, modify) :
* zip
* 7z
* tar (excluding files/folders removal)
* wim
You can also create, but not modify, the following archives:
* tgz
* tbz2
* taz
* txz
* Z
* gz
* bz2
* xz
* xar
* iso
The following archive formats are supported for read-only (browse, unpack):
* rar, arj, lha, lzh, cpio, rpm, cab, lzma, udf, jar
* vdi, vmdk, vhd, msi, hfs, fat, sfs, chm
more - Common filename encodings are now grouped for easier access
- BUGFIX: Filename encodings menu is displayed empty
2.7 12/17/2023
- The user can now change the font size for the file browsers panels
2.6 10/26/2023
- Files with 001 extension are treated as 7z multipart archives
- The user can hide the status bar
- The user may decide to make the app active after initiating Quick Look preview
- Improved behavior of click-to-rename function
2.5 08/29/2023
- Improved calculation of an operation speed and estimated time to complete
- BUGFIX: After changing sort column with having „..” selected, the table no longer shows „..” on top
- BUGFIX: Selecting newly created folder does not work well
2.4 01/25/2023
- BUGFIX: Searching hangs the app
2.3.1 12/15/2022
- The user can close an app window using Cmd+w
- Special handling of packing existing tar files using gz, bz2, Z and xz
- BUGFIX: Packing a file into tar may crash the app when the file has a big resource fork (>0.5MB)
- BUGFIX: Changing a column to sort clears items selection
- BUGFIX: Adding/hidding a column to display clears items selection
- BUGFIX: After renaming an item, it should stay selected
2.3 12/02/2022
- Performance improvement for operations with thousands of small files
- Performance improvement for previewing (Quick Look) big sets of files at once
- Improved support for resource forks and AppleDoubles
- Support for creating and extracting TARs with Apple extensions
- Disabled Quick Look preview for folders
- BUGFIX: When selecting items, the bottom bar disappears
- BUGFIX: Search does not work for archives with national characters in names
2.2 01/28/2022
- Support for creating ISO, XAR, Z and TXZ files
- Storing and preserving an item creation date when packing/unpacking archives
- BUGFIX: Adding to an archive may fail or have unexpected result when some items need to be skipped
- BUGFIX: Unpack a file from gz, bz2 or xz archive crashes the app when a file with the same name exists at the destination
- BUGFIX: The overwrite dialog shows incorrect file data when unpacking from an archive
- BUGFIX: Unpacking/copying/moving with using multiple jobs does not restore creation/modification dates for some folders
- BUGFIX: A new archive is created even is password is retyped wrong
- BUGFIX: It is possible to add to a tar archive that is in another archive
- BUGFIX: When opened archive file is renamed, the app hangs with the progress dialog displayed in front
2.1 10/18/2021
- Faster unpack thanks to use of multiple jobs per unpack operation
- Added support for tabs
- The user can now extend and restrict selection using wildcards (press "+" or "-")
- The user can invert the selection (press "*")
- Help Book added
- Improved search (with search options)
- Items in archived can now be renamed (7z, zip, jar, wim)
- Showing more file attributes (Compression Ratio, Compression Method, Encrypted)
- ‘Forward’ and ‘Back’ buttons added to menu, toolbar and Touch Bar
- Added ‘Do not ask again’ option for a file update dialog shown when a file was updated
- BUGFIX: changing previewed arch item may hangs the app
- BUGFIX: when writing to a tar fails, there is no error message shown
- BUGFIX: overwrite dialog when unpacking from a tar shows incorrect in-arch path
- BUGFIX: making a tar archive of a folder with a special file in it (like socket, character device or block device file) never completes
- BUGFIX: packing into a zip/wim a folder with sockets/block/char devices always fails the entire operation
- BUGFIX: canceling the rename operation leaves the item displayed with the changed name
- BUGFIX: edit with Cmd+4 does not update a file in the archive when it is updated in the editor
2.0 07/06/2021
- Support for making Wim archives
- Native support for Apple Silicon
- Support for macOS 11 (Big Sur)
1.7 11/25/2020
- BUGFIX: major fix for conversion of filenames encoding
- BUGFIX: it is not possible to modify a tar file if its name extension is in upper case (TAR)
- BUGFIX: when destination folder is not writable, extract operation fails without showing any message
- BUGFIX: it should not be possible to drag&drop a file to itself
1.6.2 11/05/2020
- You can now create tgz, tbz2, taz, gz, bz2, and xz files
- Archive type can be selected from a list when creating a new archive file
- More verbose overwrite dialog
- An archive file can be opened by dragging it to the Welcome window
- QuickLook plugin appearance follows the OS theme
- QuickLook plugin allows the user to show/hide hidden files
- BUGFIX: the log file can grow infinitely
1.6 10/11/2020
- you can open a file in an archive, modify it and automatically pack it back to the archive
- file names characters encoding can be set for tar, arj, lha/lzh, rar and zip archives
- adding an option to show file name extension in ‘Name’ column
- when packing from Finder, you can now set compression and encryption parameters
- showing an info about the size of selected files in the bottom bar
- (BUGFIX) when packing using a service in Finder it is not possible to cancel the operation
- (BUGFIX) when packing using a service in Finder a compression level is always 0
- (BUGFIX) the app should not allow for AppNap when it is performing user requested operation
- (BUGFIX) when an operation completes while the app is minimized or hidden, it is not possible to close the progress dialog
- (BUGFIX) selection is not restored after rereading directory when multiple items is selected
1.5 06/21/2020
- the user can now select a default unpack directory (see 'Settings' menu)
- (BUG FIX) unable to display ZIP files with files having names starting from "./"
1.4 01/24/2020
- it is now possible to create a new directory in an archive
- toolbar icons for Unpack and Unpack All replaced with sharper
- 'Select All' option from the main menu now works for files
- when highlighting multiple items, some operation requested from the right button menu should be for all
- (BUGFIX) progress dialog not displayed when unpacking from the right-button menu
1.3 12/14/2019
- the program now asks for confirmation when adding items that already exist in the archive
- added support for pasting file (i.e. copied in Finder)
- when unpacking, default directory is where the archive file is
- Welcome Dialog now allows selecting recent item with Enter key
- (BUGFIX) cannot add to existing subdirectory of tar file - items always go to root
- (BUGFIX) when dragging a file that is not selected, the one that is selected is copied (may be different than dragged)
- (BUGFIX) when appending the same file to tar archive, both are shown and it is not possible to extract it
1.2 09/22/2019
- (BUGFIX) use of 'Pack using ArchCommander' and 'Unpack using ArchCommander' services may crash after completing the operation
1.1.1 09/06/2019
- new Welcome Dialog from which the user can select recently opened archived
- 'Pack using ArchCommander' and 'Unpack using ArchCommander' services added - just click right mouse button in Finder
- default toolbar now has buttons for 'Add', 'Remove', 'Unpack', 'Unpack All'
- faster unpack directly to selected directory (previously it was to temp and then to that directory)
- (BUGFIX) after unpacking "app", the user is not able to run
- (BUGFIX) toolbar customization is not persisted between runs
1.1 09/03/2019
- Common filename encodings are now grouped for easier access
- BUGFIX: Filename encodings menu is displayed empty
more Version 2.7 12/17/2023
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