How to open .Lha and .Lzh file with StuffIt Expander for Mac

How to open .Lha and .Lzh file with StuffIt Expander for Mac

If you are trying to open, browse, view and extract LZH and LHAarchive files on Mac, then you will need a decompression tool like StuffIt Expander for Mac, which can expand StuffIt archives, unzips Zip files (created by WinZip or other zip utilities) and decompresses Unix's .tar, .gzip and .bzip files.

LZH is a file compressed with the Lempel-Zip-Huffman algorithms. It was originally named LHarc, later renamed to LH and finally to LHA.

LHA is one of the oldest compression utilities and file types going back all the way to the late 80s. LHA is hardly used anymore and is mostly needed for legacy data files or software.

Supported fromats

All arhives supported by StuffIt Expander for Mac: zip, .exe, .rar, .arc, .tar, .cab, .sit, .sitx, .bin, .sea, .hqx, .cbz, .cbr, .gz, .tgz, .lha, .lzh, .mime, .pf, .uu, .uue, .z, .bz2, .yenc.

Steps:

In the following part we will give the guide of how to open .Lha and .Lzh files with StuffIt Expander 2009 to you. This image will show you the process of expanding and openning .Lha and .Lzh files with StuffIt Expander 2009:



Download StuffIt Expander 2009 for Mac and install it on your Mac correctly.

Just drag the files and then drop them onto the icon for StuffIt Expander 2009. The software will decompress quickly and open the files, then you can open, browse, view them.