Pluses: it is a strong compression achiever, it gives you many options in order to obtain the desired archive, it is a stable application.ĭrawbacks / flaws: the lack of GUI (Graphical User Interface) sends you back to the Neolithic age of desktop computing which brings a severe drawback to the usability. It features some advanced RAR-related functions that you won't find in The Unarchiver, or in StuffIt Expander. ![]() ![]() I have to mention that UnRarX is recommended over the 3rd party unachivers. I unpacked the resulted 'test_files.rar' archive by using both the official unarchive application, but with a frontend, UnRarX, and by using 3rd party unarchivers such as The Unarchiver or StuffIt Expander. For further details, check the screenshots that I made during the test. The RAR algorithm shows its strength there. The compression rate was very good, even though I used the normal level of compression for this test. The stress test was made with my 'test_files' folder, a 2.5 GB directory, which was filled with various file types. That file is called 'rar.txt' and it can be very useful, if, or should I say, when the archiving with this program gives you headaches. The documentation is also available in one of the files which you can find within the distribution archive of this software. Unfortunately, the help is also in command-line mode. The help for this application is also well implemented. Besides the different archive levels and the ZIP support, it can build multi volume archives, strong encrypted archives, or self-extract archives. RAR for Mac features a lot of functionality. I couldn't make it crash even though I tried to do it by using various but usual commands and switches. If there is a file that the application can't compress, because of various reasons, then the program returns an error about the issue and it continues to archive.Īnother good thing is the stability. Try a graphical archiver instead.īesides the bad parts, there are some good parts about this application too. If the 'Terminal' isn't your thing, then maybe you should skip RAR for Mac. I searched for a 3rd party frontend, but I couldn't find anything besides a bunch of un-archivers which feature RAR support. The support for multi-core systems is still missing on the OS X platform, as it's available for Windows users, but not for OS X users.Īnother thing that's also missing is the graphical interface which is still not available for the Macintosh users. It doesn't slow down the system in a visible way as the older version did. ![]() Since the last tested version, 3.60, the producer has implemented the support for Intel processors. RAR for Mac is a command line archiver for Mac OS X.
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