This option however requires certain experience and knowledge about Mac OS X Terminal and its commands.Įxtract the downloaded tar.gz archive, which is natively supported by Mac OS X. RAR is able to create and extract RAR archives and UNRAR can be used only to extract them.

Archive contains two command line programs RAR and UNRAR. It is distributed without any installation application, only packed in tar.gz archive. RAR for Mac OS X is available to download on RARLAB website. Step 1 - Download and Install RAR for Mac Extracted files from archive will be stored in the same directory. Double click on RAR archive and wait until the extract process will be finished.

Open the Finder and go to the folder with RAR archives. After that close a Preferences window by red close button. Run The Unarchiver and associate archive file formats that you wanted to extract through The Unarchiver. Extract The Unarchiver.app from archive and copy it to the Applications folder. The Unarchiver is distributed in ZIP archive. Step 1 - Download and Install The Unarchiver The Unarchiver is a free open source extractor that looks like standard 'Archive Utility.app' distributed with Mac OS X. Extracted files will be stored in the same directory as the archive. Go to the folder, where you have stored RAR archives and double click on RAR archive that you wanted to extract. By default StuffIt will be associated with archive files that can not be opened by original extractor installed in Mac OS X. Open the Expander Installer and install StuffIt Expander. Step 1 - Download and install StuffIt Expanderĭownload the StuffIt Expander from StuffIt website.

StuffIt Expander for Mac is a free extractor for compressed and encrypted files such as RAR, ARJ, ZIP, SIT etc. We will show you, how to extract RAR archives in Mac OS X with the help of some useful third party compression utilities that are much more user friendly and also with the original command line utility. It is not impossible but inexperienced users can have difficulties working with it. It is because developers of RAR created for Linux and Mac OS X systems ONLY command line utility and not whole application. Extracting and opening RAR files in other operating system than Windows can be tedious task.

Application to open rar file on mac