#How to use stuffit expander install#

I look forward to any comments from the current and past developers of stuffit - they have a lot too answer for. Surely a company that has proprietary ownership of the Stuffit format(s) could a least maintain a commercial product that that can can Open ALL the crazy formats they have produced over the years.Р”Р‡inally a warning: ZIP, RAR, GZIP and the many other loss-less compression formats should never be run though stuffit ONLY perhaps if a tested uncorrupted backup exits, the likelihood of corruption of by stuffit, of these open compression formats is extremely high.

#How to use stuffit expander install#

If you want to use any other version Stuffit Expander 5 or higher, however, you will need to use the System 7.5.3 bootdisk method (described above) to install it. Now you can browse the newly created subfolder to see the Macintosh icons. The StuffIt program starts and automatically uncompress the archive contents into a subfolder. I maintain an old OS 7, OS 8 and OS 9 Macs (with comparable OLD versions of stuffit) for the purpose of opening old stuffit archives. This copy of Stuffit Expander 5.1.2 was stuffed and binhexed with Stuffit Classic 1.6 and can be decoded and unstuffed with Stuffit Expander 4.x. Open Windows Explorer and browse to the folder in which you saved the archive file. New Stuffit products often cannot open stuffit archives produced by older versions of Stuffit.

Then choose the folder where you want to unzip it to. Unzipping the zip file through Stuffit Expander. Locate the zip file that you want to unzip and open. Now, click on the Stuffit Expander Icon of application. Instances of corrupted stuffit archives are common to the Mac community. After installing, click open or go to Spotlight ( Command + Space) and search for Stuffit Expander, then open it. Having dealt with the whole Stuffit line for a decade or so (yeah I'm a old Mac guy) I have found it can produce corrupt archives, leading to costly re-production of projects. It has failed decompress RAR files for me and my clients years.

Stuffit Expander IS *NOT* a reliable RAR expansion tool.