Which unrar program is good?

I have to decompress some compressed folders containing files. I downloaded unrarX but is does not open the contents into a containing folder (which seems frankly bizarre). So that just leaves files scattered all over the place! What is a good program to unrar?
Thank you!
Justin

A workaround would be to create a new folder, drop in the compressed file and unrar it in there.

That is what I do......

Yep, me too. :girl:

Me too. But it sucks. Why should I have to do that? It means I have to
1)open the info on the file
2)copy the file name
3)close the info
4)open a new folder
5)paste the name in
6)delete the .rar from the file name
7)move the file into the folder

all that before I can start to unrar it!! That seems totally unreasonble to me, especially as I am doing it frequently. In windows and ubuntu instead of 7 steps I had exactly zero. It just did it for me. There surely must be a program which has this option for mac, surely! Please do tell!
Justin

When you "unrar" the compressed file, and it asks for the path to unrar to, couldn't you just type, for instance, /users/user/desktop/file where file is the name of the rar compressed file? That way it'll jsut unrar into the file folder on your desktop?

Justin said:

Me too. But it sucks. Why should I have to do that? It means I have to
1)open the info on the file
2)copy the file name
3)close the info
4)open a new folder
5)paste the name in
6)delete the .rar from the file name
7)move the file into the folder

all that before I can start to unrar it!! That seems totally unreasonble to me, especially as I am doing it frequently. In windows and ubuntu instead of 7 steps I had exactly zero. It just did it for me. There surely must be a program which has this option for mac, surely! Please do tell!
Justin

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Nope, not that way at all.

Create new folder: Right-click (or Control-click if you don't have a multi-button mouse) on the desktop. Drag file in that new folder, unrar in there.

And to copy the name of a file no use going into the Get Info window. Click once to highlight the name of the file, Command (Apple key) + C. The name of the file is now in the clipboard ready to be pasted where you need it.

Justin said:

In windows and ubuntu instead of 7 steps I had exactly zero. It just did it for me. There surely must be a program which has this option for mac, surely! Please do tell!
Justin

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Hmm, this makes me wonder. I read this site every day, multiple times a day, and everyone seems to recommend downloading "this for that" and downloading "this for that". What's all this got to do with the Mac slogan, "It just works"? Shouldn't all that stuff be included, already? I'd really like someone to explain it to me. I'm so close to getting a 17" MBP, it ain't funny, but it's these small issues that hang me up and there seems to be a lot of them. Maybe I'm in a Windows state of mind....

That's crazy, to have to do that with RAR files.....

Just to point out that .rar comes from the DOS world...

I recommend The Unarchiver for opening compressed archives. It extracts the contents of the archive in a new folder automatically. It also opens up countless other formats. Hope this helps.