Open Self Extracting Exe

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.SFX File Extension. Self-extracting archives commonly use the.EXE. Our goal is to help you understand what a file with a.sfx suffix is and how to open it. What is an exe file and how do I open an exe file? Usually in the same directory where the self-extracting EXE archive file is stored, though in some cases, the user is prompted for a location to decompress and store the files and folders included in the self-extracting EXE file. There are applications developed as emulators for Mac. If you want to open a self-extracting EXE file without dumping its files, you can use a file unzipper like 7-Zip, PeaZip, or jZip. If you're using 7-Zip, for example, just right-click the EXE file and choose to open it with that program in order to view the EXE file like an archive.

If I have a compressed file that's stored as a self-extracting archive for Windows, i.e., a .exe file, is it possible to convert it to a zip file that can be unzipped under OS X? Alternatively, is there Mac program that can open one of these archives?

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This is an old question, but I thought I'd throw this in anyway. With self extracting archives, you might be able to simply just run the sfx file and it should do it's thing. Make sure to give it executable permissions (chmod +x filename.sfx) and simply run that file in terminal (./filname.sfx) and it might just work.

Mike S.Mike S.

The Unarchiver supports this, and is an all round great extraction utility.

MJeffryesMJeffryes

The command line unzip in the terminal should be able to do it (it will report that it skips bytes at the beginning but should work fine otherwise).

List files:

Extract: Remington arms serial numbers.

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The freeware Keka is able to do that, too.

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It first extracts a .zip file from the .exe file, which you have to open again with any zip-extracting tool that can handle password encrypted archives.

But if you just change the file extension from '.exe' to '.zip' you can skip the conversion and are asked for the password right away.

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Keith SmileyKeith Smiley

I was unable to get unzip, The Unarchiver, nor Stuffit Expander to unpack an old self-extracting zip. I finally tried opening it in CrossOver Mac and it worked perfectly.

Chris BloomChris Bloom

Unable To Open The Self-extracting Executable File Windows 7

Checkout iZip unarchiver, great program for mac, that comes with the ability to extract .exe files.

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Or find it on the app store:

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