DropUnrar for Mac OS X
DropUnrar is a handy tool I made for recursively extracting RAR archives.
I use it to extract movies that I’ve downloaded via Bittorrent, which are often RAR-compressed and sometimes split into multiple directories.
Just drag the top-level movie directory onto DropUnrar, and it will scan through it and all its subfolders looking for RAR archives and extracting all it finds.
Also included is a utility called “DropUnrar and delete RAR files”, which does just that. It is identical to DropUnrar except that it deletes the RAR files after it’s done expanding them.
DropUnrar is written in Perl, and wrapped using Platypus, an awesome script-wrapping tool for OS X.
Click here to download unrar.pl, the Perl script that DropUnrar is based on. It can be used by itself as a CLI version of DropUnrar (requires you to have the unrar binary installed - I use the one from Fink).
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when i used dropunrar, it
when i used dropunrar, it just turned the rar into a zix. what the hell?
Sorry dudes - I don’t know
Sorry dudes - I don’t know what this zix thing is about - when I drop RAR files on it - it unrars them. I’ve never had a problem with it. It would be great if more people could report their experiences - is this happening for everyone? Is anyone using it successfully?
.zix is a scam program with
.zix is a scam program with embeded advertising. It seems that only unzix can open it from a windows based program, and usually when bringing in a bittorrent to unrar, the sender is just trying to cause problems for us, the macintosh user by causing us to expend energy and acheive nothing as a result.
Search google for more “how do I open a .zix on a mac”. That will bring up more about the subject.