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- Syntaxis, on 10/12/2007, -4/+64Dugg simply because Stuffit users are evil bastards making me fill in forms to download their "free" unpacking program, or forcing me to buy a version of Stuffit.
Stuffit where the sun don't shine! (Sorry, that was a bit too cheesy..) - bradym80, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51Stuffit is evil.
- smedrick, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41I don't even use a Mac and I know Stuffit is garbage.
- Ecowarrior, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Dugg 'cause I'd rather use anything else than stuffit. Their marketing practices annoy the hell out of me.
- Sethwm2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28I think that I am going to use this. I am tired of getting torrents of the full version of Stuffit and I am also tired of using the lame version that they have for free that you have to give them your email address and you have to wait for an email with the download link that only works once.
- melllvar37, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24and it should be noted, that it doesn't work with most password encrypted rar files
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22I've only had a mac for a short time (Since just before X-Mas) but I've never come across a sitx file.
Tons of rars and zips, though. - Katarn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Not really, OSX decompresses .zip by default.
- Langford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+197-Zip works very well.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ - jdtanner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Google "stuffit direct download" and you are presented with:
http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/exp-downloadv.html
No email address required ;-) - Indecision, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18"...and you have to wait for an email with the download link that only works once."
The one-time link just redirects to this page: http://www.stuffit.com/downloads/std-downloadv.html
(At least, that's how it works for now) - readme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Wishing it was for Windows too. People complain that Windows programmers make really bad Mac apps (which is for the most part true), but Stuffit Expander for Windows is one of the most poorly engineered Windows apps ever. They break more Windows design conventions than most of the crappy "hot dog stand theme" Visual Basic apps of the early 90's.
I despise using it, but being cross-platform I am forced to at times. The runaround to get the freeware version from Stuffit is also inexcusable. - jonshipman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13UnRARX handles split RARs pretty cleanly.
- joeycerone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13not really, mac os x can handle zip files straight out of the box. stuffit is just good for additional features.
- Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10No. just double click on a .zip and OS X will open it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13WinRar is probably the best tool for Windows for this kind of thing.
- samadam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah, i just switched recently (turns our those annoying "top 10 mac program" stories are actually helpful) and it is much better. More macy too.
- ChumpChief, on 10/12/2007, -4/+117-zip > WinRAR
- CapTylor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Stuffit was once just about the best unarchiver you could get, especially for the Mac. It handled forked files, extended attributes, multiple formats, and had a free, no hassle, no bug-window unarchive application, Expander.
It has gone downhill recently, and Apple's decision to move to zip had many reasons. Fundamentally, it was the OS level support for bundled folders that allow pseudo-forked files to be copied across dumb file systems. (Dumb, not as in design, but as in not able to handle extended attributes. Technically NTFS now allows that in streams, and is a forked file "smart" file system. However, the OS itself doesn't play well with copied Macintosh forked files.)
Stuffit also compressed much tighter then zip. This was very important in dialup days. Which explains why it was the dominant Macintosh format until very recently. It now simply retains its momentum. - MattElmore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Macpar deluxe
- cklol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been using this since it was first released. With it being much more lightweight and seemingly a bit faster than Stuffit, this program is an awesome replacement.
- serpicolugnut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been using The Unarchiver for a couple of months now, and it rocks. No need for Stuffit Expander. Bye Bye!
- noliberalbull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've been using this for a couple months now... great program, and I can finally get rid of stuffit
- jonshipman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And most RARs I've found seem to not work with this. (I think it might be spanning rars that are problematic). I recommend UnRarX for RAR files.
- MasteRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No Windows version? Guess we will keep using the trial of crappy Stuffit at work. Gotta support the stupid Stuffit users that refuse to send us Zip files.
- Viscaria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There are still some good programs that haven't been updated since the 10.2 days, back when it was much more common to use .sit.
- skilless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use unarchiver with rars all day, never had a problem.
- munit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2there have been multiple stories about this program as well has dozens of top mac software lists that have this as well. Why is this being dugg up?
- M15anthrope, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4What's wrong with the one built in to the operating system? I reformatted my drive a while back and forgot to put any unarchiving software there. Turns out the built in tool has met my needs thus far.
- uranium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hate stuffit.. the interface looks like it's made for OS9. Even the Stuffit's contextual menu crashes my finder.. had to manually delete the contextual menu item. But I feel I am dependent on stuffit because there is always some files that unarchiver can't expand and also I want to be able to create archives (sitx, zip).
- joshjx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it doesn't do .sit or .rar and possibly more...
- standfst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://rarexpander.sourceforge.net/
- joshjx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@djh816
stix files aren't very common at all anymore...
Your comment also makes it seem you were paid by Aladdin to say that.... - quidpro, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2STOP USING STUFFIT!! STOP USING .SIT or .SITX!!
1.Crap
2.Proprietary
3.Proprietary Crap
It's like having to get a completely different program just to view image files. Ridiculous. Stop using the damn format. - Kwests, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Check out forklift at www.binarynights.com. It's a brand new app, you can open archives like folders, even if they're on a ftp server.
It does preview in archives too. - hellotyler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it handles rar files ? hurrah! if I could get something to replace unrar and stuffit completely my troubles would all be solved.
- boybunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Its great. We have been using it for a while now. But why can't it decompress .sitx files?
- toddji, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I am surprised to find people still using "Stuffit". I guess these are the Mac OS old-timers. With Mac OS X, there is no reason to use stuffit.
Most Mac OS X apps are distributed as "DMG" disk images. These can be created as compressed images, although some people apparently don't know this, as I have seen several dmg.zip files for download.
Please, let stuffit die. It's outlived its usefulness. The better options, all supported out of the box, are:
- Compressed DMG images.
- tar archives, with gzip or bzip2 compression
- Zip archives. - sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The third one: http://www.xs4all.nl/~loekjehe/Split&Concat/
- Stirk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Stuffit installed a corrupt contextual menu file and finder ended up crashing every time I ctrl+clicked. Has this happened to anyone else?
On a side note, The Unarchiver is a great program - discourse, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1i love this app! i've installed it on n my fresh 10.5 install
- bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As a format .sit and .sitx aren't bad. There's been times when StuffIt has been able to achieve a smaller file size after compression than any other format. The price of StuffIt, and the hassle of obtaining the free version is what shot them in the foot. Constant, meaningless upgrades designed only to make more profit didn't help either.
Also, .zip is well known. Apple embraced cross-platform integration a long time ago -- even before OS X. - tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1just out of curiosity... what exactly are you uncompressing where you need access to *all 4* of the cores on the G5?
- ThreeDee912, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Because SmithMicro (previously Aladdin some years ago?) made a proprietary compression algorithm, and I guess the developers of The Unarchiver haven't figured out how to uncompress it yet.
- 100101111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Really great app! Forget about stuff-it!
- sprocketjockey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Love this app; works great and pretty quick
- Tanath, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So, Stuffit can stuff it?
- columbusgeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Great app. I love it and deinstalled stuffit a few months ago.
- koregaonpark, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's not an alternative until it can unpack .sit files, which it still cannot. And since StuffIt unpacks every other compression file format, why use two?
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