Keep in mind, The Unarchiver only extracts, you cannot create new archives with it, though you can create ZIP archives using the the built-in abilities found in OS X. When you’ve finally chosen your destination and you’re ready, simply click the “Extract” button and the archive’s contents will be dumped into it. Here, the destination folder is “Documents” but you can navigate to another location or create a new folder in which to place your extracted items. You’re unlikely to really need to bother with this so we won’t cover it other than to say that it deals primarily with filename encoding, and the confidence threshold.Īs we showed you earlier, when you open an archive with The Unarchiver, by default it will ask you to choose a destination folder.

When you successfully extract an archive, you can open the extracted folder, or move it to the trash.įinally, there’s the “Advanced” tab. There are also options to create new folders for extracted files, set the modification date, and to decide what happens after successfully extracting an archive. By default, The Unarchiver will ask you for a destination folder, but you can also choose the same folder as the archive, or some “Other” location. Next is the “Extraction” tab, which allows you to choose where you extract archives.

If you change your mind and want to select archives individually, then click “Deselect all”. If you want to open all archive types supported by The Unarchiver then you can click the “Select all” button. If 7z isn’t already selected, then go ahead and check the box next to it so that you can automatically open 7-Zip archives with The Unarchiver. As you can see, there’s quite a few and among the first is the 7-Zip or 7z format. When you open The Unarchiver, you’ll see its preferences.

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