BetterZip 3.0.2

Robert, 2015-08-21

BetterZip didn’t work well on OS X El Capitan which, of course, is still in early beta. However, since this soon became the number one reported problem, I fixed it as quickly as possible with this new version 3.0.2. There are still a few bugs open that I know of. They will be fixed with the next updates.

These bugs have been fixed:

• El Capitan compatibility: Zip and 7-zip archives didn’t work. Also, BetterZip crashed a lot.
• The password manager didn’t work correctly for RAR archives.
• AppleScript: Saving with a preset with a set password still asked for a password.
• Setting the number of concurrent operations didn’t work correctly.
• When creating a zip archive with a custom extension (e.g., cbz) BetterZip would create a 7z archive instead and then fail to read it back as zip. Doh!
• Added tbz2 and tb2 as recognized extensions for tar.bz2 files.
• BetterZip would go to sleep during an archive operation, when the system shut off the display. App Nap is now prevented.
• BetterZip would crash, when a part of a multi-volume archive was opened while the exact same archive was already extracting with the operations queue.
• The QL generator window only offered the default, not any user-defined presets.

There are three small enhancements I made:

• Added power user option to re-enable handling of AppleDouble (._) files. (See Hidden Settings in the BetterZip help).
• Recognize .sXX file extensions for multi-volume rar archives.
• Quick Look can now look into Corel brush libraries which are actually zip files.