Pluses: simple and efficient interface, AppleScript support, multi-volume and password protected archives support.ĭrawbacks / flaws: it doesn't have a drop zone which can trigger the uncompressing process. You can also use the 'Create Surrounding Folder in Destination' settings which is very useful especially when the archive contains many files, but it doesn't have its own root directory.

You can set up a destination path by using the source's path, a fixed location, or you can let the application to ask you every time you uncompress an archive. The 'Preferences' panel is simple and efficient. The producer provides you some example scripts in order to try this functionality. The functionality of RAR Expander can be extended with the built in AppleScript support. The application is also compatible with the password protected archives. It supports as input both single-volume or multi-volume RAR archives. I provided a large archive with many items within and everything went fine.

Anyway, RAR Expander did its job very well. The uncompressing action depends on your CPU power and disk speed. You need to provide an input archive by using the dedicated item from the File menu which triggers the whole process. The application provides you an easy to use interface. These kind of programs fill in the gap between the existence of the RAR format and the lack of GUI (graphical user interface) application from the RAR producer. RAR Expander is based on the official 'unrar' library which is provided by its developer as a command line application which makes it rather unusable. RAR Expander is another frontend which uncompresses the RAR archives on Mac OS X.

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