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Brought to you by Smith Micro Software, Inc. StuffIt was originally created for the Macintosh in 1987, and was published in 1989 by a little company near Santa Cruz, California called Aladdin Systems. Since then company names have changed and team members have come and gone, but we're still here in Watsonville, a stone's throw from our old offices, still coming up with innovative ways to make your files smaller and provide the most comprehensive suite of file compression tools available.
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Homepage:http://www.stuffit.com 
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StuffIt Expander 2010
Sep 29 2009

STUFFIT  ...a portion of my post was cut off...

The Services menu does not support the same "contextual behavior" (ie: presenting different commands depending on what files are selected). We are investigating alternate solutions.

MagicMenu, which provides the identical features as StuffIt Contextual Menu, works fine under Snow Leopard in both 32 and 64 bit modes.

Also, this comment was posted to the Expander product, but really only applies to the StuffIt Deluxe product.   
(Version 14.0)

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StuffIt Expander 2010
Sep 29 2009

STUFFIT  Per http://free.abracode.com/cmworkshop/macosx_10_6_snow_leopard_and_contextual_menu_plugins.html

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Contextual Menu Plugins in Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Snow Leopard does not support contextual menu plug-ins in 64 bit applications

Apple removed native support for contextual menu plug-ins in Mac OS 10.6 in 64 bit mode and replaced it with services items. Even if the contextual menu plug-in is 64 bit, the applications will not load it. Almost all, if not all Apple applications shipping with Snow Leopard run 64 bit by default, including Finder, so your contextual menu plugins will not work.  
(Version 14.0)

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StuffIt Expander 2010
Sep 29 2009

STUFFIT  The stand-alone StuffIt Expander does not install any files into either the /Library or ~/Library directories. StuffIt Expander is completely self-contained.

The installer presents the License Agreement and then copies the StuffIt folder from the disk image to the /Applications folder. The administrator password is required because not all users have write access to the Applications folder.   
(Version 14.0)

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StuffIt Deluxe 2010
Sep 28 2009

STUFFIT  StuffIt 10 is not Universal Binary and on Snow Leopard runs under Rosetta. Every version of StuffIt since then has been Universal Binary.  
(Version 2010 14.0)

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StuffIt Expander 2010
Apr 6 2009

STUFFIT  That error comes from the built-in archive utility in OS X (typically when you encounter an encrypted Zip archive). To open your Zip archive. try dragging onto the StuffIt Expander application icon, or launch StuffIt Expander and then drag your archive onto the Drag Window. If it's password protected, you will be prompted for the password.

--Eric Kopf  
(Version 13.0.3)

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StuffIt 2010
Oct 27 2008

STUFFIT  StuffIt Standard is completely self-contained. No other components are installed anywhere on your machine. The admin password is required in case your account is a non-Admin user and you do not have write-permissions to the Applications folder.

--Eric Kopf

StuffIt Product Manager

Smith Micro, Inc.   
(Version 13.0.1)

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StuffIt Expander 2010
Oct 21 2008

STUFFIT  Thanks for the suggestion :-). We did exactly that with both StuffIt 11 and StuffIt 12 and still had support calls. While the new StuffIt Expander installer may be somewhat frustrating and unnecessary for advanced users, they are still able to install the software. Now novice users that don't understand the drag install concept and were previously unable to install the software can also install it.

--Eric K  
(Version 13.0.1)

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StuffIt Expander 2010
Oct 21 2008

STUFFIT  We switched from an installer to a drag install with StuffIt 11. Given the number of Support calls we've had since then from customers that do not understand the drag install concept (I attribute this to switchers or new users), we put the StuffIt folder in a slim wrapper that copies Expander and the manual to the Applications folder.

Expander is completely self-contained. No other components are installed anywhere on your machine. The admin password is required in case your account is a non-Admin user and you do not have write-permissions to the Applications folder.

--Eric Kopf

StuffIt Product Manager

Smith Micro, Inc.  
(Version 13.0.1)

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StuffIt Expander 2010
Oct 21 2008

PSEUDOPROMETHEUS  Instead of using an installer, might I suggest the use of an illustrative dmg wallpaper, à la Firefox? You could even take it one step further and include an alias for the Applications folder like some other developers have.

Best of luck. :)  
(Version 13.0.1)

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StuffIt Expander 2010
Oct 21 2008

STUFFIT  Thanks for the suggestion :-). We did exactly that with both StuffIt 11 and StuffIt 12 and still had support calls. While the new StuffIt Expander installer may be somewhat frustrating and unnecessary for advanced users, they are still able to install the software. Now novice users that don't understand the drag install concept and were previously unable to install the software can also install it.

--Eric K  
(Version 13.0.1)

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StuffIt Expander 2010
Oct 24 2008

SJK  Attempting to reduce your support load by making a ()&@#$ installer out of this caters to stupidity at the expense of people who have a clue. Lame move.  
(Version 13.0.1)

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iTuneMyWalkman
Jan 22 2008

STUFFIT  If your phone uses a memory card, get a USB 2 card reader. I picked up a "Thumbdrive" type adaptor for a Sony Memory Stick Pro at Fry's for about $7. It makes all the difference...  
(Version 0.942)

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ShowVolumeFragmentation
Sep 18 2006

STUFFIT  If you are using Apache, add this line:

application/x-stuffitx sitx

To the end of this file:

/etc/httpd/mime.types

--Eric Kopf

Allume Systems, Inc.  
(Version 0.80)

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StuffIt Deluxe 2010
May 4 2006

STUFFIT  I am unable to duplicate this behavior. If I move Expander's progress window. When I expand another file, the progress window appears in the new location. If I quit and relaunch Expander and try again, it still appears in the newly designated location.

Perhaps your Expander preferences file, located here:

/Users//Library/Preferences/com.stuffit.Expander.plist

..is damaged. Delete it and then try to duplicate the issue again.

--Eric K  
(Version 10.0.2)

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