Find the one file in a client delivery, without unpacking the rest.

Where it goes wrong today

The delivery arrives as a single archive, often several gigabytes. You need one logo, one layout or one spreadsheet from it. Most Mac archivers only know one move: unpack everything into a folder, wait, then dig through the result and delete what you did not need. When the archive is a 7z, the extra step of finding something that opens it comes first.

How Kutio handles it

Open the archive in Kutio and it appears as a file listing, with folders you can open, columns you can sort and a filter field for searching by name. Nothing is extracted until you ask for it.

Select a file and Quick Look shows it in place, so you can check that it is the right version before you take it out. In Finder you can also press Space on the archive itself, and its contents show up in the standard Quick Look panel without opening Kutio.

When you have found the file, drag it from the archive to the Finder, a folder or another app. The rest of the archive stays where it is. Kutio opens zip, 7z, tar and its compressed variants, and extracts rar, so most deliveries need no second tool. Opening, browsing, previewing and extracting are free.

What stays the same

The archive file itself is never changed by browsing or extracting. Everything runs on your Mac, and the delivery is not uploaded anywhere. If you do want the whole archive, extract it in one step as you always have.