To uncompress different archive formats, you’ll need a specialist Mac file extractor.
These macOS-native apps are only capable of basic compression and extraction, and just for ZIP files. Unfortunately, that’s where Finder and the Archive Utility’s capabilities fall short. Some pro and power users might need to send an archive to a client or colleague in the recipient’s preferred format – or they might have a more complex compression task, like extracting multiple archived folders at once. war file? And what about other formats, like RAR, TBZ, TGZ, and 7z?
Ctrl+click, right click or two-finger tap to open the shortcut menu.It’s also easy to compress files and folders in the ZIP format, directly in Finder:
