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Fair enough. I downloaded betterzip and it does seem very good.
By the way, what the hell do you put in a 15gig rar?
By the way, what the hell do you put in a 15gig rar?
Free utility to open .rar files?
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I doubt you saved any space by rar compressing audio?
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I don't save much space but it's allot quicker transferring one file across my network and then extracting it, than trying to transfer allot of MP3's.
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Hmm. Archiving 15 gb's of music, then copying it onto a networked location is quicker than just copying the seperate files? Doesn't say much for X's networking.
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I have a standard wireless network, yes it's crap but I don't have the need to transfer a backup of all my music very often so I don't mind leaving it to transfer over night every now and again. Transferring over 2k individual files would have taken longer imo and I keep all my backups in RAR archives anyway even if I don't save much space so no I didn't need to compress it before transferring.
Why go off topic? This thread has nothing to do with my networking setup, I explained that I had tried The Unarchiver and found it slow and rubbish, I gave you an explanation as to why I thought that. Now people may have a different view on some of the programs mentioned here but imo betterzip is working well for me.
Why go off topic? This thread has nothing to do with my networking setup, I explained that I had tried The Unarchiver and found it slow and rubbish, I gave you an explanation as to why I thought that. Now people may have a different view on some of the programs mentioned here but imo betterzip is working well for me.
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You claimed the unarchiver to be 'rubbish and slow' without offering any reason as to why. On version tracker it's rated 4.4/5 but someone reading this forum might write it off on reading your comment. Hence I kinda probed what you were saying and it turns out you had archived thousands of mp3s.
For your purpose 'betterzip' is indeed better as it allowed you to look inside the archive without extracting it, 'the unarchiver' does not support this functionality and began extracting the archive, which of course is very resource intensive both for cpu and disk hence your system became unresponsive. Having said that, 'the unarchiver' is free and most people don't archive their mp3 collections.
On topic? The op asked for a free utility to which the unarchiver and stuffit expander were suggested, both of which are free. Betterzip is not free. It does in fact seem a good product however if you just want to extract pretty much any archive (and don't make pointless huge archives of thousands of files) then there's no need spending a tenner.
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Oh, and to reiterate to anyone reading this, a simple internet search will reveal stuffit to be pretty much loathed by most mac users.
For your purpose 'betterzip' is indeed better as it allowed you to look inside the archive without extracting it, 'the unarchiver' does not support this functionality and began extracting the archive, which of course is very resource intensive both for cpu and disk hence your system became unresponsive. Having said that, 'the unarchiver' is free and most people don't archive their mp3 collections.
On topic? The op asked for a free utility to which the unarchiver and stuffit expander were suggested, both of which are free. Betterzip is not free. It does in fact seem a good product however if you just want to extract pretty much any archive (and don't make pointless huge archives of thousands of files) then there's no need spending a tenner.
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Oh, and to reiterate to anyone reading this, a simple internet search will reveal stuffit to be pretty much loathed by most mac users.
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i use UnRarX. Work perfectly for me as all i do is unzip files.