BetterZip 5.4 is out now

Robert, 2025-09-11

It’s been a while since the last update to BetterZip. Today I have two smaller new features for you, as well as a few enhancements and bug fixes.

New Features:

• The new Close File command (choose File > Close File from the menu or press ⌃⌘W on the keyboard) will close the current file, but leave the window open and return to the initial state.
• Non-archive files can now be previewed in BetterZip when selected in the built-in file browser (the left sidebar).

Enhancements:

• The archive’s macOS quarantine flag will not only be preserved for extracted executable files, but also for extracted (recursive) archives.
• The Quick Look preview now automatically sorts by file name.
• When clicking in the background of the file list and dragging the mouse up or down, BetterZip will now select files like in the Finder.

Fixed bugs:

• Sequential archives (.001, …) didn’t open correctly in some cases.
• Archives with a digit in the first place of the filename extension couldn’t be opened if they were not multi-volume archives (e.g., archive.3mf).
• Moving archives to the trash after extraction now works reliably.
• When using a save preset, and selecting the option “Don’t include the single root folder in the archive”, BetterZip wouldn’t save the archive to a folder set in the preset, but always next to the original.
• The preset option “Move after successful extraction” would only move the numbered parts .z01, .z02, … of WinZip-style multi-volume zip archives while leaving the last .zip named part behind.
• If BetterZip is set to open directly to DropBar, closing the DropBar did not result in BetterZip quitting.
• Extracting from an opened subfolder in a Finder list view window to a place through the Finder extension extracts to different folder.
• The Automator actions for extracting or compressing files couldn’t be configured, if there were multiple presets with the exact same name.

If you find any problems, please do get in touch and report them. Thanks!

macOS 26 (Tahoe) is upon us and BetterZip will run nicely on it.