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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