TajArchive Support

From the Mac App Store, just click Get. From the disk image (.dmg): open it, drag TajArchive onto the Applications folder, then open TajArchive from Applications. The welcome window sets up the Finder menu and default app in a couple of clicks.

macOS keeps Finder extensions off until you switch them on. Open TajArchive → Setup Assistant and click Turn On or Open System Settings, then enable TajArchive Finder Extension (System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions → Finder). Afterwards right-click any file or folder in Finder and choose TajArchive.

Click Set as Default in the Setup Assistant, or pick formats in TajArchive → Settings → File Associations. You can also select an archive in Finder, choose File → Get Info, pick TajArchive under “Open with” and click “Change All…”.

Apps from the Mac App Store run in a sandbox and may only use files you give them. Allow access to your home folder once in the Setup Assistant (Access to your files → Allow Access) and TajArchive can open archives and save files next to them anywhere in it. For other places, such as external drives, it asks the first time you use them.

Select the archive in Finder and press the Space bar. Quick Look shows the list of files; Finder thumbnails also show the archive format and, for ZIP, the number of files.

TajArchive asks for the password when it is needed. With 7z archives that hide their file names, the password is needed even to list the contents. Passwords are never stored.

Long operations can be paused and resumed from the progress window. Extraction speed is limited mostly by the disk; Tools → Benchmark shows what your Mac can do.

Quit TajArchive and move it from Applications to the Trash. Its settings are in ~/Library/Containers/com.donishsoft.tajarchive (Mac App Store version) or ~/Library/Preferences/com.donishsoft.tajarchive.plist and ~/Library/Application Support/TajArchive (downloaded version).