missing the Archive Utility.app

You've probably already gotten all the help you need from previous replies and, most likely, you already know this but, just on the off chance, in System/Library/CoreServices it's called BOMArchiveHelper.app.

"I cannot find a way to re-install that program from my system install disks,"
If you cannot locate the app in the Bundled Software folder or in Applications to custom install, then you will need to use Pacifist to custom install the Archive Utility.app.


Pacifist Usage Instructions

Thanks for giving the directory path - I have wanted to do something about this app for some time and could find almost no information on it.

My system (OS 10.4.11) launches BOMArchivehelper.app as the default for various compressed files (.zip, .rar, etc.), and for this purpose it seems nearly, if not completely, useless. Instead I launch Stuffit (or right-click, "open with") and either open compressed files or drag and drop. Once in a while I forget and double click a file's Finder icon, and almost always regret it. Did this about two hours ago for a ~ 75 MB zip file and the little sourcer's apprentice is still grinding away with the progress bar moving about about 1 mm every 20 minutes. There is no program icon in the dock and if I call up the Force Quit Applications panel, the utility is no where to be seen.* I'm torn between ignoring the useless little troll of a program and shutting everything down, so I can reboot and get it out of my sight.

I finally reset the default for zip files to Stuffit, so it shouldn't happen again, but I'd like to know if there ius a real use for BOM, or is it just there because Apple felt obligated to include thi type of app in the operating system?

Hi! Try opening a Finder window, selecting a folder and then under the file menu see if you don't have "create archive". Tom

Hi zemquoi, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

If nothing else...

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29764