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WinRAR is one of the tools what I'm missing a lot since I've moved to MacOS. The other one is Total Commander...



What do you miss about WinRAR? The ability to view an archive's contents without having to extract it first, and extract individual files? That can be achieved with BetterZip:

https://macitbetter.com

BetterZip also comes with a Quick Look plugin.

> The other one is Total Commander...

Maybe check out Transmit by Panic. It's technically a remote file transfer software, but can also be used for the local filesystem.

https://panic.com/transmit


Cool, I was not aware of BetterZip, looks great!

Re TC: I am using CommanderOne, that one gets close to it. Also using Midnight Commander in the Terminal


Huh, CommanderOne is new to me. Thanks


I had the same thought when i switched to Linux a few years ago - then i realized i can just run them under Wine :-P.

Though over time i switched to using Double Commander, an open source Total Commander clone written in Lazarus / Free Pascal, more than Total Commander itself since it runs natively on Linux and can do things like running programs such as xterm, but i still keep Total Commander installed since it can do some things better (or at least in a more familiar manner).

My default archiver is still WinRAR though.


Yeah, DoubleCommander is almost like TC. I'll look into Vine on MacOS


I use Commander One (https://commander-one.com/) on MacOS as a Total Commander replacement and it's good enough.

There's also a free version with a few features restricted here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/commander-one-file-manager/id1...


It's been years since I used Total Commander, so I don't recall all its features anymore. On macOS I use Marta https://marta.sh/.


Have you tried Ant Commander Pro file manager?




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