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Proposal to add note to not use The Unarchiver on MacOS

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Andrujhon (talkcontribs)

The Unarchiver on MacOS is a very popular archive utility due to it's support of a very wide range of archive formats.

Unfortunately the tar-gzip decompression incorrectly truncates filenames (See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258716) causing subtle but significant errors in the installation - certain front-end features fail due to missing resources.

Since The Unarchiver is a very popular utility for many MacOS users, it might be justified to add a note alongside the suggestion that windows users use 7-Zip that MacOS users should not use The Unarchiver.

I've added an edit to the page, but it's protected so I thought it wise to also drop a note here explaining my addition.

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

Closing this, as it has been added already but with a warning that it corrupts the extracted files due to phab:T258716