Totally frustrated. TAR files won't open

[sacredjourney]

Hello All,
I have recently purchased some photos we had taken at a resort in Mexico. The pictures came across as a TAR file and when I click on them to open them up it just makes a duplicate file. I only purchased 6 photos and now I have over 18 TAR files. They are multiplying like rabbits and no photos in sight. HELP!!!!

 

[willieva]

Open up a terminal, change directories to where the tar file is, and type:
tar xf tarfilename

If the tar file name has a z in the end, like .tgz or .gz, then use:
tar xzf tarfilename

 

[416049]

Hello All,
I have recently purchased some photos we had taken at a resort in Mexico. The pictures came across as a TAR file and when I click on them to open them up it just makes a duplicate file. I only purchased 6 photos and now I have over 18 TAR files. They are multiplying like rabbits and no photos in sight. HELP!!!!

download the free trial and use it

http://www.stuffit.com/mac-expander.html

it has opened all of my files so far.

 

[Sirobin]

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/9112/untar

See if that works.

 

[derbothaus]

http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver