BetterZip 5.0.1 Bug Fixes Released

Robert, 2020-06-17

Less than a week ago I released BetterZip 5, this year’s major new version. The release went pretty smoothly and your feedback was great. Thank you!

Of course, the new version has a few problems and although we did a lot of testing, many things only come to light when a huge number of users start using an app in their own ways on their own diverse systems. I have been fixing bugs and smoothing out kinks non-stop the last couple of days and here’s what I fixed:

• Saving an archive with an invalid regex exclusion pattern could crash BetterZip.
• The archive name in the navigation bar was not updated after opening archive.
• DMG disk images couldn’t be created through a preset using the operations queue, e.g., from the BetterZip menu in Finder.
• You could choose to split a disk image, even though the format doesn’t support splitting.
• The Internet Access Policy used by Little Snitch now describes that in order to install the external rar tool, access to rarlabs.com is required.
• The menu command Help > Open BetterZip’s Application Support Folder is now disabled, if that folder doesn’t exist. Currently this folder is only created, if you have BetterZip download and install the external rar tool.
• In the preferences the file association for the Apple Disk Image type couldn’t be deselected.
• The title (filename) of a compression operation was shown incorrectly after it finished.
• The queue window showed an ever growing file size when compressing folders.
• The BetterZip Finder extension didn’t work on external disks.
• Not all archive types on the exclusion list were actually excluded from the Favorites sidebar, leading to an error message when opened. The exclusion list was also ignored in the Finder extension.
• BetterZip wouldn’t display and extract all files from certain larger zip archives.
• “Move originals” preset option didn’t work correctly, if Mac specific files were to be included in the archive, but there were none.
• The QL generator didn’t work for some users on macOS 10.13 and 10.14.

There are still a few open issues and I will keep working on them and release more fixes soon. Please be patient. And if you find any problems, please do get in touch and report them. Thanks!

BetterZip 5 is a paid upgrade. All users who bought a license on or after September 1st 2019 get the upgrade for free. Woohoo! Older licenses entitle you to a discounted upgrade: $9.99 for V3 and V4 licenses, $14.99 for V1 and V2 licenses (including those bought in the Mac App Store).