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Archive Utility has stopped working

Hi Folks,

Any idea how to reinstall this program? It hass topped working - I double-click on a .zip,for example, and Archive Utility opens up - but just hangs in what appears to be a state of starting the decompression process. Force Quit is my only option. I'd like to get this working (and not replace it with something else). Is there a preference file or something that can be tossed? Can I reinstall it?

Thanks.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Oct 1, 2012 6:00 AM

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Feb 13, 2013 9:13 PM in response to Jaketown

It's very poor that Apple haven't shipped an update for this yet. MS would not take this long.

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Feb 14, 2013 9:45 AM in response to JonMoore

Thats quite the specious statement. Please reserve trolling for other fora. Let's keep this thread on topic, please!

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Feb 22, 2013 8:49 AM in response to pickerin

If you don't like Terminal go to Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor.app

"Show" : "All Processes" (top right of the window).

Then search for "appleeventsd".

Click it and then click the "Quit Process" toolbar item.

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Mar 25, 2013 1:58 AM in response to cajund

So this thread started in October and here we are towards the end of March with no update? Appalling.

Archive Utility vs The Unarchiver - the latter works.

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Archive Utility has stopped working

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