The text labels on the drop-down buttons in the toolbar were not always correctly enabled/disabled.
Extracting multiple tar archives with the queue failed.
Fixed some user interface problems on OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
Some tar.gz files couldn’t be extracted correctly on OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
Under certain circumstances, the Keychain wouldn’t remember that access to the BetterZip passwords had been allowed permanently.
BetterZip 2.3.3
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
Bug Fixes
._ files were unnecessarily added when re-saving archives.
Access to archive passwords stored in the keychain wouldn’t stick for some users on Mavericks.
Uncompressed tar now works correctly on Mavericks.
The save panel didn’t honor specifically set filename extensions from the preset when “show save panel” was set.
The radio buttons in the preset lists in the settings could get confused.
On Mavericks the main menu was always displayed in English, regardless of the system locale.
Includes the latest unrar.
BetterZip 2.3.2
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
Enhancements
Support for the new RAR 5 format.
Bug Fixes
Restore TAR compatibility on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Compressing and extracting files with extended file attributes (xattrs) are now fully supported.
Added a safeguard against storing empty passwords in the password manager.
CPGZ archives are handled correctly again.
In some cases the main menu was not displayed in the correct language (or only partially).
Prevent a very rare crash after upgrading from an older version.
Added a Spanish translation for names of default preset.
Work around a PDF preview bug in Mac OS X 10.7.4.
Added a safeguard against malformed zip archives.
BetterZip 2.3.1
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
New Features
Added Spanish localization.
Enhancements
You can now unset the default and service presets in the preset configuration.
1024px application icon for retina display Macs.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a small memory leak.
Fixed a crash when extracting 7-zip archives with a custom-set, invalid temp folder.
DEB archives were not handled correctly in some cases.
Fixed compression of symbolic links.
Fixed the file attributes when extracting certain executables zipped on a Windows box.
Extracting a single folder from a SIT archive didn’t work.
“No compression” didn’t work for files larger than 4GB.
When directly extracting a rar file, passwords were not tried automatically, even if the option to do so was set in the settings.
When changing the order of presets, the default choices were lost.
Fixed the 1-click “Download & Install” function for the external rar commandline utility.
BetterZip 2.3
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
New Features
You can now change the preview font and switch line wrapping in the preview on/off.
Added Czech and Brazilian Portuguese localizations.
BetterZip is now signed with my Apple Developer ID which lets it run with Gatekeeper. Because of this, you will have to allow BetterZip to use its own passwords. It will ask you for each password, but only once if you click “Always allow”.
Enhancements
Enhanced the replace file panel when updating multiple files in an archive at the same time.
You can now reorder the list of presets in the settings with drag-and-drop.
Display service and default (toolbar) markers in the presets lists.
Added a setting in Settings > Advanced to control which Growl notifications to issue (only needed for Growl 1.2 users).
Handle incorrectly named tgz and tbz archives more gracefully.
Click on dock icon will once again open a new window, if no windows are open and the “new window” option is set in settings.
Updated the included 7-zip commandline tool to the latest version (9.20).
Bug Fixes
The BetterZip services were not translated correctly for some languages.
Fixed a possible crash when setting a new master password for the password manager.
Fixed the misleading error message when trying to extract or save to a read-only folder.
The Favorites sidebar’s background had drawing errors when BetterZip was in the background.
Creating a new folder inside a tar archive wouldn’t work under certain conditions.
In rare cases parts of multi-part rar archvies were not deleted correctly after extraction.
Fixed a possible crash after using the PDF preview on Mac OS X 10.7.4.
Fixed a possible crash when trying to print an archive from the Finder (printing is not supported, but cmd+o and cmd+p are neighbors on the keyboard).
BetterZip 2.2.1
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
Enhancements
Allow merging of folders and “keeping both” when adding items that already exist in the archive.
The “Open With” menu is sorted and displays better results now.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a possible crash when deleting an archive in the Finder while it was visible in the favorites sidebar.
Fixed a possible crash when using the “open with” menu with unknown file types.
The percentage badge on the BetterZip icon in LaunchPad could get stuck.
In some cases BetterZip was not able to track moved or deleted archives.
BetterZip 2.2
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
New Features
Added “Open with” to the contextual menu and changed the View toolbar button to a drop-down button with “Open with” functionality.
You can now specify a custom file extension in save presets.
Added a menu item to extract all archives in a folder recursively.
Added an option and menu item to compress each of multiple dropped items into an individual archive.
Added Japanese (by Koichi Matsumoto) and Polish (by Mariusz Nicpoń) localizations. Thank you, guys!
Added the Greenwich localization framework by Whitney Young, FadingRed LLC to allow super easy translation into new languages. Start BetterZip, hold down the Alt/Option key and drop down the Help menu. There’s a new menu item “Translate BetterZip” that will open the translation interface.
Enhancements
Increased extraction speed for rar files.
BetterZip will now display exactly which part of a multi-volume rar archive is missing, if any.
In the save panel the standard file extension will be appended to the filename.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a possible crash when quitting BetterZip with the favorites sidebar opened.
Fixed a few errors in the Russian translation.
The registration window could lead to an infinite loop under certain circumstances.
Growl will no longer write a warning message to the log.
Fixed a bug that could lead to files being overwritten when extracting certain tar.gz archives.
BetterZip 2.1.2
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
New Features
Added a Russian localization.
Enhancements
Hold down the Cmd key while dropping a folder in the queue window to recursively extract all archives in it.
Hold down the Alt key while dropping an archive in the queue window to force compression.
Bug Fixes
When starting BetterZip through one of the services in the Services menu, no empty archive window will be opened.
Fixed a possible crash when quitting BetterZip with the favorites sidebar opened.
The registration window could lead to an inifinite loop under certain circumstances.
The split size for 7z archives was limited to 4GB.
Fixed a bug in handling “additional options” when creating archives.
Using the option “show save panel” together with the queue could lock up BetterZip.
Trailing numbers are no longer cut off from the filename when saving with automatically created archive names.
Fixed “reuse passwords for subsequent archives” in queue.
BetterZip 2.1.1
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
Bug Fixes
Split size is now base 10 (1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes) like the rest of the application.
Search field was invisible on Mac OS X 10.6 under certain conditions.
The English help was replaced by the French help.
Fixed the update mechanism. It will work again from now on.
Fixed a possible crash when creating previews.
Extracting all archives in a folder didn’t work under certain conditions.
Some strings were not correctly translated in the French localization.
BetterZip 2.1
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
New Features
Using the service “Extract with BetterZip” you can now extract all archives in a folder hierarchy.
If files are selected in the archive window, presets now only extract those instead of all files. Hold down Shift to extract all anyway.
Enhanced “replace existing files” dialog: it now allows to merge extracted items into existing folders, keep both versions or replace the existing version with the one from the archive.
Enhancements
Enhanced accessibility.
Improved SIT file handling.
The favorites sidebar is now populated in the background and there is no longer a delay when starting BetterZip.
Re-added “Terminate after last window closed” option.
Enabled the additional parameters field for tar archives.
Holding down the option key now shows a save panel even for services or direct extraction.
The location preset in the save panel is now by default next to original/archive.
Bug Fixes
Fixed two bugs that could lead to a crash.
BetterZip now uses the original encryption method when resaving an archive, i.e., header encryption will be retained.
Splitting 7z archives was off by a factor 1024.
The Save toolbar button wasn’t correctly initialized with the default preset.
Cancelling archive creation through a service in the save panel no longer displays a confusing message.
Moving or deleting the external rar program could lead to a crash when saving with a preset with rar format.
The progress bar no longer gets stuck when hiding BetterZip while extracting large archive.
Extracting an archive via context menu while the same archive was open in BZ could crash BetterZip.
Fixed a problem with extracting read-only folders in archives.
BetterZip 2.0.2
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
New Features
Added an option to suppress the creation of folders for extracted archives (in extract presets).
Enhancements
The queue window is now closed upon completion of all operations, if it was opened automatically.
Enhanced Lion compatibility.
Removed option “quit after last window closed”. If BetterZip is started as a service, it will always quit when finished. If started in normal window mode, it will never quit automatically.
Bug Fixes
Fixed crash when using BetterZip as a service.
Closing windows with unsaved changes now works correctly.
The password manager no longer gets confused when switching tabs in the settings window.
BetterZip no longer asks to save modified, empty archives when exiting.
The queue progressbar didn’t update correctly when extracting rar archives.
BetterZip now prevents extracting of unsaved archives.
BetterZip 2.0.1
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
Bug Fixes
Fixed extraction for SIT archives.
Fixed the selection of service and default presets.
Fixed correct execution of some post-extraction options (revealing the extracted files in Finder, removing the archive, …)
Fixed a potential security problem.
BetterZip 2.0
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(for macOS 10.6 and later)
New Features
Queueing of multiple archive operations
Services: Extract and compress files through the Finder’s contextual menu
Presets: create configurations for extracting and compressing archives
Password manager
Test archive integrity
New, friendly layout
BetterZip is now 64-bit
Replaced filebrowser with favorites sidebar
Quick Look inside archive
More archiving options (expert options)
Added configurable filters to remove unwanted files (e.g., Windows Explorer files) when extracting
BetterZip can now extract pieces of partially damaged archives
View unrecognized files as text in preview
BetterZip 2 can automatically set the archive’s file modification date to the latest date of any file inside the archive
Enhancements
Removed confusing Mac/Compatibility mode switch
Better error handling
Re-saving multi-part archive with fewer parts will remove no longer used old parts
Execute a script after extraction or archive saving, e.g., hand extracted files to a virus scanner, upload archive to a server, attach to email after save, …
The modification date is displayed will automatically change format depending on the available space.
Newer XAR format (safariext-files) can now be opened and extracted.
Show estimated compressed size for files in solid archives.
XAR: better display of save-progress, more save-settings.
BetterZip now bases all file sizes calculations on 1 KB = 1000 bytes, 1 MB = 1000 KB, 1 GB = 1000 MB.
Better structured more complete help.
Bug Fixes
svn-Patterns: Escaped the dot correctly.
In flat view BetterZip no longer keeps the files listed in order of their folder.
BetterZip couldn’t be made the default handler for tbz files on some configurations.
