ZIP, GZ, BZ2, SIT, SITX, HQX, RAR and other compressed files
What File Juicer does with ZIP and RAR
File Juicer does not unpack standalone ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, SIT, SITX, HQX or RAR archives. Finder on macOS handles ZIP natively, and macOS Ventura (2022) added native RAR support too. For older formats, The Unarchiver is a free app that handles almost everything.
What File Juicer can do is find and extract ZIP or RAR files that are hidden inside other files, most commonly inside Windows EXE installers. It can do the same for CAB files embedded in EXE files.
ZIP as a container format
Many modern file formats are actually ZIP archives in disguise. File Juicer can extract images and other content from all of them:
- Microsoft Office files -- DOCX, XLSX, PPTX
- Apple iWork files -- Pages, Keynote, Numbers
- EPUB ebooks
- iPhone apps (IPA)
- Android apps (APK)
- Apple AR files (USDZ)
- Java archives (JAR)
In each case File Juicer scans the contents and extracts the image and media files it finds inside.