You might be so inclined to spend a few bucks on a program like WinZip or WinRAR, but there are also free alternatives of which Zipeg is one.
Zipeg (Free) User rating. Download Latest Version for Mac (2.93 MB) Advertisement. Zipeg for Mac is a file compression tool, which offers the convenience of previewing an entire file before extracting it. It supports popular archiving formats such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, TGZ, BZIP2, ISO, CBR, CBZ and many others. Zipeg (Free) User rating. Download Latest Version for Mac (2.93 MB) Advertisement. Zipeg for Mac is a file compression tool, which offers the convenience of previewing an entire file before extracting it. It supports popular archiving formats such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, TGZ, BZIP2, ISO, CBR, CBZ and many others.
Zipeg is able to compress and decompress the vast majority of used compression formats like ZIP and RAR, but also supports some of the less-known compression formats you might find online like ARJ or ISO images.
One of the cool things about Zipeg is the preview of images before you decompress the archive. This is useful for only decompressing certain files from your archives on demand.
Zipeg is an excellent alternative to the shareware programs we all grew up with.
Zipeg can create 7Z archives and create ZIP files.
Features and highlights
- Popular: .zip, .rar, .7z, .tar, .gz, .tgz, .bzip2, .iso, .cbr, .cbz formats
- Rare: .arj, .lha .lzh, .cpio, .rpm, .chm, .z, .war, .ear
- Decrypts password protected .zip and .rar files (strong AES encryption)
- Auto-magically combines and opens multipart .zip and .rar files
- Shows content of archive and allow you to select what to extract
- Groks filenames in national alphabets (both code pages and unicode)
- Super fast 'hover over' preview using EXIF thumbnails for photographs
Zipeg 2.9.4.1316 on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs
This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from file archivers without restrictions. Zipeg 2.9.4.1316 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.
The program was created by the developer as a freeware product, but donations for the continued development are highly appreciated. You may generally make a donation via the developer's main web site.
Filed under:- Zipeg Download
- Freeware File Archivers
- Major release: Zipeg 2.9
- Archive Decompression Software
Zipeg Editor's Review
Zipeg is a free tool that allows you to view the contents of archives, as well as providing support for unarchiving.Unlike other programs, this tool is very useful, because most of the Mac applications that have unarchiving functionality can't display the content of the archives.
Unfortunately, this application can't see the content of the archives that are included into another archive. For example, if you do have a ZIP archive into another ZIP archive, it won't display the content of the second one. Another example are the TAR.GZ or the TAR.BZ2 archives that can't be displayed properly, because within the GZ or the BZ2 archive all you can see is the TAR file.
The extraction of files from an archive usually goes pretty well. If the file/folder already exists onto the target-extracting folder, the application asks if it should overwrite them and it also gives you the possibility to break the operation if this situation happens.
Pluses: it can display the content from various types of archives.
Drawbacks / flaws: it can't display the content of multi-archived files. If an archive contains another archive then you can't see the content of the second one.
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