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Automated StuffIt Deluxe 8.0 compression
Authored by: foobar104 on Aug 03, '04 11:11:36AM

I'm going to second the "that's nice, but so what?" sentiment. Stuffit just doesn't do it for me any more. The very worst part about it is the fact that downloading a Stuffit-compressed file causes Stuffit Expander to pop to the foreground, driving your browser to the background. Zip archives don't do this, nor do disk images.



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Automated StuffIt Deluxe 8.0 compression
Authored by: Makoto on Aug 03, '04 03:28:26PM

Which browser are you using? You should be able to set it to save .sit/.sitx files to disk rather than opening them once they're downloaded... it's generally a good idea not to directly open anything from the net, anyway.

All my browsers are set to save all files to disk rather than open them. If you're using Safari, I think the "Open "safe" files after downloading" box in the General preferences tab should be unchecked (but if it's enabled, that would also mean disk images would be mounted, and you said that wasn't happening)



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Automated StuffIt Deluxe 8.0 compression
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Aug 04, '04 12:43:28PM

Expander works in the background for me... I can't imagine why yours pops to the front...

I give my vote for Stuffit also. A few more benefits. You can view inside archives with the CMM, and if you open a file in StuffitDeluxe, you can view and extract/compress individual files inside the archive.
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