works overall but can’t view items in a zip archive without extracting

First of all, let me say it is a relief to have this program on the Mac. I used it for years on Windows although recently switched to the freeware alternative, 7-zip. It amazes me that there is no decent zip archive viewer on the Mac. Something like WinZip was sorely needed.

I use this app multiple times every day. Opening zip files and viewing the contents - works perfectly. Updating the contents of a zip - great. Creating a new zip file - great. Viewing an file in the zip? BZZT!

Double click on a text file in the zip and… it opens up some strange folder window showing some info about the file size… Why can’t it copy the file to a temporary directory and open the file in the app bound to that file type? That’s what it does on Windows. Instead, I have to select to extract the file to my mac, via a button in the GUI, or by dragging it to a folder.

And if it’s a file I just wanted to take a quick peek at and forget about, now I have to remember to also delete the file after I’m done with it. This is all automatic on Windows. Double click on a file in the zip and that’s all it takes. Hopefully they’ll eventually make it just as simple a process on the Mac.

Pspam about WinZip - Zip, unzip, protect