Free software is not necessarily good, but software that you need to pay can actually bring you powerful features. But the disadvantage of the Unarchiver is that it can’t compress files, and UnRarX suffers from a really unfriendly user interface. There are many free RAR Expander alternatives for you to compress RAR files, like the Unarchiver and UnRarX.

In this case, we have to find a RAR Expander alternative to decompress and compress files successfully.īest RAR Expander Alternative for Mac-Cisdem Unarchiver What’s more, a user said that some websites can freely download RAR Expander, but it may hijack your browser with extensions that will reset your Firefox and Chrome homepages as well as redirect you to custom search pages.Īlthough this program has its advantages, the problems existed really make things inconvenient.

Meanwhile, for some reason each time it expands a file, it also adds a copy of Lightroom 4.3 installer package on computer. You don’t know how to stop it and have to eject the LR package. The main reason might be the RAR Expander is not compatible with your system, since the latest version (v3.60) of RAR Expander was released on September 8th, 2006. “I am having trouble finding a rar expander that works on OS X 10.3.6, so far i have tried UnrarX 2.2, Stuffit expander2009 and RAR Expander v085 and when I click on them nothing happens, any ideas?” -From Timar

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