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Download BetterZip 4.2

BetterZip 4.2

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  • Latest Version

    BetterZip 5.3.4

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X 10.10 or later

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    MacItBetter / External Link

  • Filename

    BetterZip-4.2.zip

  • MD5 Checksum

    d6894562b510d9937816a043cf3697d8

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system. Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of BetterZip 4.2.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of BetterZip for Mac or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

New Features:
- Added support for macOS 10.14 Mojave’s Dark Mode
- BetterZip now has a menu bar icon onto which you can drag items and that has a shortcut menu with the most important functions. Activate the menu bar icon in the BetterZip preferences on the tab “General”
- You can now specify in extraction presets what BetterZip should do, if there are conflicts with already existing files or folders
- BetterZip now supports zipx files that use xz compression as well as WinZip split files (z01, z02, …)
- Added an option to not “show folders” when in flat list view. Toggle this option via the View menu
- Added a Polish translation

Enhancements:
- Filenames containing numbers are now sorted numerically like in Finder
- The “Replace File” dialog shows more clearly which file or folder is older and which is newer
- Changed the logic of the option “Quit after last window closed”: only archive windows will trigger the quitting, not the preferences, transcript, or queue windows
- Show combined progress of all windows (not only queue) in Dock tile (and menubar item)
- Added a button for testing the archive in the warning message window when an error occurs during opening
- Added an AppleScript command to get the selected item paths in an archive window
- The Drop Bar is now forced to the front when dragging files over it
- Add a setting to not show the queue window when queue operations are started. Turn it on in BetterZip > Preferences > Advanced
- The encoding of text files is now automatically detected when previewing text files in the preview sidebar
- You can now select multiple files in the File > Open panel

Bug Fixes:
- Dropping files (especially a mix of supported archives and non-archive file types) onto the BetterZip Dock icon did not work reliably
- When switching view mode without a sorting column selected in the table, BetterZip could crash
- BetterZip will no longer allow to extract zip files outside of the destination folder. (Thanks, Meituan Financial Security Team!)
- Fixed the opening and extraction of plain xz archives
- For some users the BetterZip Finder button did not work
- Extracting multi-part, password protected rar archives with CRC errors could lead to an endless password entry loop
- When editing a file type in Preferences > Files and clicking Ok without making any changes in the window, the type disappeared from the list
- PDF files showed only the first page in the preview sidebar
- Compressing a folder with a space character at the end of the name didn’t work

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