![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, RAR Archives are something that you may find from time to time on the internet and it is very difficult to open them. That's why you really want this here in case you want these files. You can see that the list is pretty large, much larger than would be opened by the regular Archiver utility. It will recognize then that these file formats will be opened by Unarchiver on your Mac. Once you have it installed you can launch it pretty easily and the first time you launch it, it is going to give you this big list of archived formats. So you find it pretty easily just by searching for it in the Mac App Store and then you can download it and add it to your apps. It is available in the Mac App Store for free. Well, there is a pretty standard utility that Mac users have been going to for years. zip or something and you need to decompress it. ![]() Refer to MacMost episodes 167 and 517.īut what happens if you get a file that isn't a standard format like. It is pretty easy to compress files and to decompress them in Mac OS 10. On today's episode let's look at the Unarchiver. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. Or for older OS X versions, grab it here.Check out MacMost Now 930: The Unarchiver at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. Best of all, it’s free! MacPaw purchased The Unarchiver in 2017 and have since been adding features, making it look and run slick and have still kept it free. It can open pretty much ANY archive without issues. The Unarchiver is another app you can find on all of my machines, noth Intel and PPC alike. The Unarchiver – Not much to say about this app, apart from “If you don’t have it, you need to get it right now!”. Links to these older versions can be found at the bottom of their site. You can try out CleanMyMac by going here or clicking the banner above.ĬleanMyMacX requires macOS 10.10 or newer.ĬleanMyMac Classic requires macOS 10.4-10.8 Being able to update all my apps from within CleanMyMac (opposed to check each app website/updater for updates) is pure gold as well. Being able to thoroughly uninstall apps is something I put a lot of value in. They even offer malware scanning now but I have not tested this feature. I use CleanMyMac to clean up my own systems (on PPC it’s very nice to be able to strip out Intel code from applications, leaving more space and smoother running apps for the PPC) and it’s my uninstaller of choice. You need to familiarize yourself with it’s features and know how the macOS works so you can direct it’s power to the right places. The same thing goes for a popular maintenance app called Onyx. CleanMyMac is a very powerful tool however so if you choose to ignore the warnings, you can potentially mess up your system. If certain actions should not be taken, you are warned. If parts of the system should not be messed with, the app warns you not to mess with it. MacPaw has historically always done their homework. It really has come a long way and I use it often. Trim application fat you don’t need (language files etc)Īnd much more.Free up space by finding and deleting old/unused files.It now offers some of the following features: Available for both PPC and Intel Macs this app did as promised and has evolved a lot since then. I’ve been using CleanMyMac for over a decade and started using it in 2008. With that cleared up, let’s look at some of the useful features the software offers: “Notarization gives users more confidence that the Developer ID-signed software you distribute has been checked by Apple for malicious components.” states the Apple Developer website. Furthermore, CleanMyMac is notarized by Apple, MacKeeper is not. CleanMyMac is solid and reliable software and the developer/company (MacPaw) has never done anything shady that I am aware of. People have gotten MacKeeper and CleanMyMac confused so many times over the years that they now both have a bad rep. They do very different thing though.ĬleanMyMac – Contrary to popular belief, this is not malware, scareware or any other maliciousware. I have bundled these two apps together as they are from the same developer. ![]()
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