Some features that I miss from WinRAR

Betterzip really is the best archiver on OSX. Very well done.

However, there are a few things that I miss from winrar, and that's dealing with the creation and/or extraction of multiple zip/rar files.

With winrar, i could pick a bunch of files in the explorer window and right click and choose 'create archive'.
This would bring up a dialog with options. I could split the archive, put passwords on it, etc. The splitting was great because we often use zip/rar to transfer stuff from one office to another thru ftp. Breaking up the files makes it easier because of the threaded transfers that those apps allow.

The other thing i would love to see is another right click in finder option where i can select multiple zip files and pick one of two choices :
* Extract here
* Extract to [dirname listed is the name of the first zip]

this allows me to quickly extract things with multiple zip files and not have to worry about having it create a ton of directories of the zip file names, but still have it create directories contained IN the zip files.

Other than that, it's all good. I really dig the app.

rob

Thanks for your kind words. I am working on context menu support, AppleScript and Automator to be precise. That should allow everything you described above. It will take some more time, but I am planning a release after the summer.

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