ESPIRIDION I purchased my last version of Stuffit Deluxe many years ago. The upgrade fees were not worth it to me, and I ended up using the Finder (or PathFinder) as well as RAR Expander, The Unarchiver, and more recently Springy which became my main application for expanding and compressing files. Since I found a very attractive offer I decided to purchase Stuffit Deluxe 2009. Here are some observations: 1. At the regular price I would not have purchased the software. Even at $30 which is the upgrade fee it was not worth it to me. 2. For some purposes, the free alternatives are sufficient. For example, in terms of size and time I found no significant advantage using Stuffit when compressing or expanding ZIP files. 3. SITX files were smaller. That's a plus. 4. Browsing through archives and previewing files is a time saver. Springy has similar functionality, but I liked Stuffit better. 5. Expanding multiple archives at once is DANGEROUS. I expanded 4 archives, each one with 4 parts. Once the expansion was over, three of the archives were Zero K in size. Only the first one was expanded correctly. Expanded the archives individually worked fine. 6. The progress bar is deceiving. While expanding a multi-part archive the progress goes to full when the first part is expanded, even though expansion of the whole archive is not complete. 7. It did not work with some segmented files I received, with extensions .001, .002, etc., although these files are supported according to the manual. Overall I'm pleased with Stuffit Deluxe. It supports multiple formats and has some useful features. It does have some shortcomings, including the price. For an application that has been around for so many years, I was surprised by some of its behavior and errors. Hopefully these issues will be fixed and provided as a free update.
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