Improved context menu integration and status box.

Support for password list for common archives.

Scan only mode to detect the type of any given file.

This is the most advanced of them, featuring a very long list of enhancements. As the development of the original version has stopped and no update has been published for years, many forks (modified versions, maintained by volunteers from the community) have arisen. This program is an unofficial updated and extended version of the original UniExtract by Jared Breland. An overview of supported file types can be found here It can also deal with application installers, disk images and even game archives and other multimedia files. Unlike most archiving programs, UniExtract is not limited to standard archives such as. You cannot get that version from sourceforge and it is still an early beta.Universal Extractor 2 is a tool designed to extract files from any type of extractable file. The successor has even better compression ratios, better compression speed and it uses multiple cores. There is a forum for archive software developers and there you can find that author has made a successor to this version. On smaller (less than 1 GB data sets) the Ultimate compression does not provide as much benefit when compared to other apps. I doubt you get much support as the author is likely is busy with life and making money in some other ways.Īll in all it is a great application if you are looking for a way to get the best compression for large amount of data and you don't care how long it takes. There is NO money to be made in archive applications, so this one is still quite good for the money. I don't think this application utilizes multiple cores (see beta app note below). On the modern hardware ultimate compression ratio is easy to accomplish, because of abundance of RAM and CPU power. In general UI follows WinRAR design pattern only a bit plainer. UI is a bit confusing, but I can not complain for the price.

FreeARC produces that best compression ratio and that's what I value it for. In large data cases I usually have lots of time and I want to get the best compression ration. Another good example, is you need to backup a 30-50 GB of virtual machine data files. For example, if you have lots of files like a several GB software development project. It is a great archiver especially for the price when you need to archive a truly large amount of data.

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