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evangelion-01
Jan 23, 2007, 04:42 PM
Hey there, recently my finder has been crashing when i right click on stuff, it doesn't happen all the time only randomly, it also crashed sometimes when i right click on the trash. The only recent changes i did to the system where stuffit 11 and i also xslimmed a few apps, but the apps work properly... any suggestions?


yellow
Jan 23, 2007, 04:47 PM
Yes.. there's a craptacular contextual menu that gets installed with Stuffit 11 that is likely causing the problem. It can be found in /Library/Contextual Menu Items/, remove it and restart. Your problem should be gone.

FWIW, you don't need that as a contextual menu anyways. If you need something opened with Stuffit Expander, it will open automagically when you double click the compressed item.
evangelion-01
Jan 23, 2007, 05:52 PM
Yes.. there's a craptacular contextual menu that gets installed with Stuffit 11 that is likely causing the problem. It can be found in /Library/Contextual Menu Items/, remove it and restart. Your problem should be gone.

FWIW, you don't need that as a contextual menu anyways. If you need something opened with Stuffit Expander, it will open automagically when you double click the compressed item.
Mhmm... i see igettercmplugin.plugin and toastit.plugin(toaster 8) no sign of stuffit although when i right click i do see the stuffit menu in there... mhmmm is it hidden?

edit: stupid me... it's under Macintosh HD, not my user name... mhmmm you learn something new everyday huh?
yellow
Jan 24, 2007, 08:20 AM
So, did that fix the issue?

And yes, it is under the root Library. In UNIX terminology, that is written as /Library, as / refers to the root of the drive (not to be confused with the "root" superuser). The user's Library would be written as ~/Library or /Users/shortusername/Library (where "shortusername" is replaced by the user's short username), the ~ refers to the current user's home directory.

For more information about the command line (there's a lot of great stuff to learn/know there), try tis tutorial on for size:

http://osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/index.ws