Services not limited to archive files (The Archive Browser)

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The Services bundled with The Archive Browser 1.8 apply to any file or folder 
type, which clutters Finder.app’s context menu for every item, and allows 
triggering of actions that can’t work (such as extracting an image, text 
document, folder, etc.).

It makes the Services unusable for me, as it clutters the context menu too much 
for all files.

I tried to hack the Info.plist file manually to set NSSendTypes to 
"public.archive", but it crashes the app. (Since it does work with test 
Services I built with automator, I guess it might be an issue with the app’s 
data integrity — if this is part of how App Store-distributed apps work — 
or something similar. I’m not an OSX developer so I don’t know any better. 
^^)

Tested on OSX 10.8.4.
I didn’t test the Services in The Unarchiver.

PS: many thanks for The Unarchiver, been using it for years.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fverschelde on 17 Aug 2013 at 12:43

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The problem is that there are very, very many archive types, and some of them 
don't even have set extensions. The Archive Browser can also open a number of 
formats that are technically not archives. So it seemed a lot more prudent to 
just allow you to try to open any file. So for now, I don't think this is worth 
doing anything about. It will always be wrong for someone.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2013 at 8:42

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