The Archive Browser App Reviews

Ive been looking for a RAR Browser for OS X for the very longest time! I am happy to have found this app and more than happy to support this developer. This works well and is just what I needed alongside The Unarchiver!

The Archive Browser screen works fine with very small zip files (500 KB or 1 MB); but it gets stucked with larger files. I have tested it with several zip files I have (50 MB, 300 MB, 550 MB) and it is not possible to see its contents, on the left panel you see a label "Reading archive contents…" but it does not finish… I try to double click on the grid, but it is frozen. I just purchased from the AppStore, I´ve been robbed.

Purchased this application solely because a forumgoer mentioned that it had managed to rescue files from a corrupt .zip that Archive Utility, StuffIt and even a Terminal command could not open. Verily, I say unto you that it succeeded admirably. $4 was worth the instant gratification and lack of back-and-forth to the client.

The new version is having difficulty opening almost any archive I throw at it. Archives that used to open just fine now freeze the entire application. Looks like it has an issue with slightly large archives. (5MB or more) I guess its time to move on… good things dont last forever.

Every time I try to extract a single file from a rar I get an error. I just wasted $4. I hope this is resolved. Other previous version reviews seem to be positive.

I was looking for something similar to 7-zip File Manager for Windows, and this provides the ability to view and extract portions of archives. It would be nice to be able to drag and drop files into existing archives for quick updates.

i bought this mostly as a means of supporting the developers work with The Unarchiver. Itll mostly be a "blue moon" utility for me, but at least ill have that functionality as a resource in my toolbox when needed. Many thanks to Dag for all his hard work to create very beneficial archive utilities in the post-Stuffit era ;)

Now that it gained the ability to test compressed files, its become even more useful for me.

I tried extracting an exe file with it but it didnt work so there goes 3.99 oh well I guess macs just cant extract exe files at all.

I really needed an app that could let me quickly view and modify contents of an archive without having to extract it.

I had a corrupted zip that wouldn’t open with any program but this one! I never write reviews, but I am so happy right now I need to tell everyone! These broken zip I had was missing some end marker and I knew everything was there, but nor Stuffit, or the normal unarchiver worked. I tried on a PC, and didn’t work either. Tried using the Fix comand in Terminal, -F and -FF… nothing worked! But terminal was showing there were files inside the zip…. I was desperate! I was ready to tell my client I lost all the data when I decided to give a last chance and downloaded the Archive Browser… worked like a charm! I was able to unzip EVERY SINGLE file!!! This app just saved me hours of rework! Thanks thanks thanks!

Sometimes you don’t want to open up a whole zip archive just to get one file. Maybe you’re being contiensious about minimising writes to your new SSD (you only get so many). Maybe you know that unpacking a huge number of files will just start to ripple through your Dropbox, pushing you over your limit. Maybe it’s just the principle of the thing. Either way, this is a great little utility for getting in and getting out with with minimal fuss.

I’ve tried opening several archives (zip, rar) and everytime I do the application closes without ever allowing me to see or expand the archive. I’m running the application on the latest version of Yosemite so everything is up to date. Happy to change the rating when it works

Downloaded and installed. When I open notheing happens. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling, the same thing. I wasted my money.

10.10.2 The checkboxes to select filetypes for the app to handle can’t be checked, making the app useless.

Doesn’t open at all. Needs to be fixed.

Subject says it all. App d/l’d and installed from Mac store app, but when you run it it just does nothing. Forget their support page…it looks like a hacker site…don’t know if it can be trusted…Apple should probably yank this product from their store…it’s not much money, but it appears to be a rip off, regardless of whatever the sellers “friends” are saying.

Preferences section does not allow me to select a file type to open. Whenever I try and open a file I get a message that the file type is not recognized. Complete rip off.

Definitely a must have app and also very well supported by the developer! Dont hesitate, buy it!!

I like this program. It is great to be able to view the contents of an archive before decompressing it. I love the feature that will always create a directory to hold the contents. However, 95% of the archives that I uncompress already contain a top-level directory with the same name as the archive. Therefore, 95% of the time, I uncompress the archive and then perform a bizarre ritual in which I rename the top-level folder and then drag the single directory inside it out. (The renaming is because the Finder complains about the folder with the same name.) I would switch this feature off, but 5% of the time the archive doenst contain a same-named folder at the top. It would be one line of code to fix this behavior (if len( contents ) == 1 and contents[0].name == os.path.splitext(archive.name)[0]).