I'd like to use Archive Utility (the built-in OSX archive tool) to decompress some .cbz and .cbr files. Unfortunately, Archive Utility doesn't seem to recognize .cbz or .cbr as a zipped file, so if I try to "Open With" Archive Utility, it re-zips the file; if I try to "Expand Archive" from Archive Utility itself, it doesn't recognize the extension and won't allow me to select the greyed-out file.
When I rename a .cbz to .zip file, Archive Utility works fine.
With .cbr files, however, after I rename the extension to .zip, Archive Utility will rezip as a .zip.zip file (or .zip.cbgz file, depending on my settings in Archive Utility). If I open that .zip.zip file in Archive Utility, it will extract it back to a regular .zip file, but it remains an unopenable archive.
Any ideas on how I can force an unzip?
Due to administrator settings (I'm on a work computer), I must use Archive Utility and can't easily have any other unzip or archive software installed.
Edit: I've also tried it from the terminal using the "open" command with the same (.zip.zip) results.
Best Answer
The Apple's Archive Utility seems incapable to unpack some archives including some legitimate
.zipfiles.I looked at several GUI alternatives to set as default instead of the Archive Utility and settled on The Unarchiver which seems to be a seamless replacement.
If you have homebrew installed then it is:
Open the app and set the default file types it should handle. You can also check to option to open the extracted archive in a new Finder window.
Also some file managers like Midnight Commander (
brew install mc) or Double Commander (brew cask install double-commander) will handle the archive correctly.