How to open tar file with StuffIt Expander for Mac

A best way to open tar file on Mac

TAR is a UNIX command that allows you to create a single archive file containing many files. Such archiving allows you to maintain directory relationships and facilitates transferring complex programs with many separate but integrated parts that must have their relationships preserved.

As technology improved, the term TAR remained, but now it refers to the combination of one or many files into one compressed file with a .tar file extension. TAR files can be manipulated on Windows computers by using software tools designed for this purpose. But how to open .tar file on Mac?

Here we recommend a powerful program StuffIt Expander for Mac, which is a simple and free decompression application for Mac to expands and decodes the compressed file that you download from the Internet or receive attached to an email, like .zip, .exe, .rar, .arc, .tar, .cab, .sit, .sitx and so on more than 20 formats.

Steps:

In the following part we will give the guide of opening .tar file with StuffIt Expander 2009 to you.

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

2. Launch StuffIt Expander 2009 for Mac with double-click.



3.Just drag the files and then drop them onto the toolbar for StuffIt Expander 2009.



The software will decompress quickly and open the files so you can open and browse the .tar files. Or you only double-click the files and select "decompress the files to the current folder" if StuffIt Expander 2009 for Mac is your default decompression software.