Alternative to Stuffit.

[Ultimate-Omen]

I've had all I can stand with stuffit 10...it doesn't expand half the things it should. So, does anyone know of an alternative to stuffit?

thanks in advance.

 

[mad jew]

Well, some people are having more luck staying with Stuffit 9.0 however I find 10.0 better personally. There are many more specialised de-compressors on VersionTracker however Stuffit is the best all-rounder IMO. Maybe have a bit of a look around there all the same, just to see if there's one that suits you better. 🙂

 

[Ultimate-Omen]

Well, some people are having more luck staying with Stuffit 9.0 however I find 10.0 better personally. There are many more specialised de-compressors on VersionTracker however Stuffit is the best all-rounder IMO. Maybe have a bit of a look around there all the same, just to see if there's one that suits you better. 🙂

thank you, yes i know that all signs point to stuffit but i just cant stand it...i wish there was something like winzip for mac that could expand anything.

 

[bousozoku]

What things doesn't it expand?

I know it can't compress .zip file contents beyond the minimum but it does expand quite a lot and you can allow it to use the system utilities to work on others.

 

[Ultimate-Omen]

What things doesn't it expand?

I know it can't compress .zip file contents beyond the minimum but it does expand quite a lot and you can allow it to use the system utilities to work on others.

well i only have (had) stuffit expander...and apparently they released build 10.0.1 which fixes the errors that i am experiencing. BUT it wont let me upgrade expander without downloading and installing stuffit standard (which is a bunch of crap that i dont want to deal with). As of this point that is the only way of upgrading it...or so it seems. I am stuck.

 

[bousozoku]

well i only have (had) stuffit expander...and apparently they released build 10.0.1 which fixes the errors that i am experiencing. BUT it wont let me upgrade expander without downloading and installing stuffit standard (which is a bunch of crap that i dont want to deal with). As of this point that is the only way of upgrading it...or so it seems. I am stuck.

I think that they were trying to make it better so that you could compress and archive things with Standard where you couldn't with Expander. It's not a bad deal--it's still free. 🙂

Besides, it's the engine that's important and you'll need the version 10 engine to catch all the new changes...oh yeah, that was version 8. 😀

 

[gekko513]

thank you, yes i know that all signs point to stuffit but i just cant stand it...i wish there was something like winzip for mac that could expand anything.

WinZip didn't expand rar-files last time I tried.

 

[Ultimate-Omen]

WinZip didn't expand rar-files last time I tried.

i meant winrar 😀