Is there a way to open .ace compressed file on macOS? I tried searching for solutions but haven't come across any method to extract it yet.
MacOS – How to extract an .ace compressed file
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Best Answer
Shameless plug: With acefile there is now a python based solution to uncompress ACE archives, that is slow, but works on OS X. Simply make sure you have Python 3 and then install
acefile
:Then you will have the
acefile-unace
utility installed, that you can use to extract ACE archives, including the newer ACE 2.0 format that is not supported by most archivers with ACE support on platforms other than Windows. Run something like:You may have to explicitly give the
bin
path of your python installation if you don't have that in your PATH (e.g./Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin/
).