Springy

No more existant support. Should be deleted from the macupdate database

Is this abandonware?

I bought this app about a year & a half ago so I could make fast and easy OS neutral archives for my clients. It worked great for a while and I loved it, then one day there was an update or something, the same one when the main app icon changed to this new one, and all the sudden my license was no good any more. Needless to say, I was a bit upset that I'm expected to pay twice for a simple archiving utility. (and I won't). Wrangled with StuffIt after that for a while and hated every minute of it. Then I found JuneCloud's FREE Automator action/services set. Done deal. If you're only looking for something to make clean archives in zip format, just go to Apple.com and search for JuneCloud. It's free and it works with Snow Lep.

I wanted something that could quickly make a zip a folder in a platform-neutral way (stripping out resource forks and such). I used DropZip for this for years but was becoming very disenchanted with the StuffIt line. A simple task, I thought; surely there are many alternatives. But I tried many programs and none offered easy drag-and-drop to create a zip archive. Most work well for viewing and altering the contents of a zip archive, but are very clumsy for creating the archive in the first place. Finally I found Springy and I love it. The contextual menu does exactly what I wanted. The program does many other useful tasks such as creating disk images. And the application (of course) allows one to view and edit the contents of archives. The program is also well supported. I've not found anything that comes close to Springy and heartily recommend it. Even so, I have a few minor complaints: - The contextual menu entries for acting without asking questions are clumsy and confusing, e.g. "Click and Create ZIP". Huh? Click what? I don't want it to do two things (as implied by the and) I just want it to create the archive. As I say, this is no big deal -- once you learn what it means it's fine. - The as-shipped behavior for the contextual menu is to ask questions before creating the archive. The menu may ZIP but it really means ZIP.... Fortunately it is easy to change this in a preference. - After installing the contextual menu doesn't always show up (this just happened to me yesterday when I upgraded to 1.5.2). Even after logging out and back in! I had to double-click the installed contextual menu item (which bizarrely opened something completely irrelevant) and then the contextual menu started working. I'm hoping that 1.5.5 will fix that, especially if I toggle the setting to move the contextual menu back under More along with the others.

before you give money to this dev, you should know that contextual menus in 10.6 are not able to interact with the Finder the same way so this likely won't work with 10.6 - ever.

Does this does rar and 7zip yet i heard zip with 256 aes is easy to crack if u know atleast 1 file in the archive

Regarding the feud between the developer and "July1962"... Having read the original thread http://www.springyarchiver.com/o1d4um4m1lk373mp3n4bl3d/viewtopic.php?t=287 , it comes down to this: JULY1962: Springy claims that it can split files using a standard format, but when I send split files to somebody else, they can't open them. DEVELOPER: Springy uses a standard split zip format. It's not my fault that no other Mac app understands this standard format. JULY1962: If no other Mac app understands it, then it's false advertising to call it a "standard". You're a liar! DEVELOPER: You're an idiot. ...except in the thread it takes them 50,000 words to say it. The "idiot" has a point. There ARE ways of splitting files that are more standard on a Mac than the format that (according to the developer himself) **no other Mac app understands**. Waving your arms and yelling "but it's a standard!" doesn't make it so. Clearly the PKzip split format is NOT a standard **on Mac**, or some other Mac app would understand it.

I can't get the contextual menu to show up at all..root level or any other level. I actually you this more than the app itself. I re-installed and restarted my computer. I still got nothing. Anyone else seeing this?

This may be a dumb question but what if someone doesn't want the contextual munu item in the root of the menu? Not knocking the idea, just maybe should be an option.

What in the world?! What is going on? Clearly you didn't read carefully. I PURCHASED this shareware and found out after doing so that the files I split are only good if the people I send them to also have Springy! The advertising doesn't state that! What, do you all work for this guy or are his relatives?

This is the best and far most intuitive archiving utility for Mac OSX IMHO...And I tried a lot...Ease of use and number of supported archiving formats cannot be beaten by anything else..Kudos to developer... As for previous poster remarks...I think he/she misunderstood the Springy completely...This is not the tool for just splitting and joining files, although it can do that also in more than a good way, this is the ultimate tool for working with LOT of various archive types...I have read the discussion of mentioned poster and developer on Springy forum and I think that the poster simply dont understand anything regarding splitting/concatenate files...For plain split/join you can use built-in UNIX tools..For truly working with archives try Springy..You will be amazed for sure...

I purchased this program so that I could split large files and send them to others to recombine at their end. They have a Mac version of this, but unless other Mac users have Springy, they can't use the files. I have been in contact with the designer who has admitted that the program works well with PC's but it still does not fully function with Macs (as far as recombining files) even though their website states: "Supports common and most often archive types, compression methods and disk images: ZIP, TAR, DMG, ISO, GZIP, BZIP2, Unix Compress, RAR, SIT, Java archives JAR, WAR, EAR... Support for more types still to come..." It doesn't for Macs.

I have been using Stuffitt Deluxe since ..I was born! But now I love using Springy for all basic daily needs. For any files not handled by Springy I do it with the legendary Stuffit. Regards,

COCOMAC I have been using Stuffitt Deluxe sincce ..I was born! But now I love using Springy for all basic daily needs. For any files not handled by Springy I do it with the legendary Stuffit. Regards,

A very good and easy to use compression tool for a nice price, but actually the cm-plugin causes a lot of crashes of Safari and Mail. So the stability on Leopard is unfortunately far away from it was on a Tiger system. Hope the bugs will be fixed soon.

Viewing contents of archives via the Contextual Menu no longer works in Leopard. This was one of the coolest features in my opinion. Hopes this gets fixed soon.

Strong, light, fast software with a useful rich contextual menu to easily make archives (including disk images) and navigate through archives content. Really really smart...

Best program of it's kind! Allows easy appending to Compressed files and a Fabulous contextual menu setup! Thanks.

Uh oh. www.springyarchiver.com is gone (expired domain). I hope this doesn't mean development has ceased. I just bought this. Not cool.

Great stuff, slick and easy to use. Glad I discovered and purchased this today. Worked flawlessly in my tests...