Archive Utility freezes when trying to unzip a zip file

I am having the same issue. Looks like repairing permissions and restarting is the fix.

Seen here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4381241?start=0&tstart=0

There is no need to install third-party apps

Problem solved:

delete plist, restart. New working plist will appear.

Cheers

I am experiencing exactly the same problem. Fortunately I also have Stuffit Expander on my Mac and I used that to unzip the archives. It had no problems and the unzipped files are fine.

I get this bug too. Funny, it used to work...

Opening with iPack (3rd party solution) wroks perfectly.

Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library". Then go to Preferences folder and delete com.apple.archiveutility.plist. Now try.

macjack wrote:

Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library". Then go to Preferences folder and delete com.apple.archiveutility.plist. Now try.

doesn't work for me

Me too.

Indeed it does, thanks for pointing us the right direction, Brian.

Opened Disk Utility, repaired permissions on the startup disk, restarted and hey presto, Archive Utility is back.

Same issue here. Will try the "repair utility" solution as mentioned above.

Repairing disk permissions and rebooting is the only thing that seems to work for me. This happens constantly, and is a huge pain in the butt.

Tried this. Didn't solve problem.

Doesn't work for me either.

Solution is given in the thread mentioned above.

Repairing permission is not required, just kill appleeventsd process.

Seb

The terminal command:

sudo killall -KILL appleeventsd

.. will work - for a while.

Sometimes even:

killall Finder

... will work - for a while.

But it remains an OS X bug.

That worked Sebastien, thanks!

In Terminal:

sudo killall -HUP appleeventsd