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Use Command-S to create Stuffit archives
Authored by: joey03 on Dec 20, '04 09:37:30AM

I can't believe that this was published as a hint. The command-key equivalent command-S for "stuff" exists only when MagicMenu is running, and it's not modifiable.



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Use Command-S to create Stuffit archives
Authored by: arosen on Dec 20, '04 10:57:00AM

You can set a keyboard shortcut for Ziping files.
Just go to Keyboard/Mouse prefs and add a keyboard shortcut for "Create Archive" in the Finder app. One has to logout in order for changes to take effect



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Use Command-S to create Stuffit archives
Authored by: leisuremonkey on Dec 20, '04 03:22:08PM

That's good to know, thanks for the tip. I personally use Stuffit because I have noticed that zip files created using Panther's "create archive" feature contains invisible files that become visible when unzipped on a PC. It usually confuses my clients.



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Use Command-S to create Stuffit archives
Authored by: osxpounder on Dec 26, '04 07:40:33PM

"You can set a keyboard shortcut for Ziping files.
Just go to Keyboard/Mouse prefs and add a keyboard shortcut for "Create Archive" in the Finder app. One has to logout in order for changes to take effect"

Tried it. Won't work. I'm guessing it's because the menu item is different if you select more than one file: "Create archive of 3 items", or "Create archive of 113 items", for example.


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Use Command-S to create Stuffit archives
Authored by: leisuremonkey on Dec 20, '04 03:18:32PM

I was the one who submitted this hint. I'm sorry people felt that it wasn't worthy of publishing. I personally don't think that every hint needs to be a system-level hack that only die-hard geeks will appreciate. Sometimes, they can just be little productivity tips for a specific app. I personally appreciate those hints.



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Use Command-S to create Stuffit archives
Authored by: covvie on Dec 23, '04 02:32:01AM

Hints that are specific to an app need to clearly state the app requirement, and this one doesn't. Cmd-S does nothing in the Finder on a normal Panther install.

I like the hint, but dislike the fact that the requirements are not documented properly. As such, the hint as it stands isn't very helpful. Only on reading others replies did I find out that I now need to go look for MagicMenus and see what it is in order to take advantage of this.



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