My Stuffit Expander is dead

[Blackheart]

My Stuffit Expander is dead and I have no idea why. I've tried: reinstalling, repairing permissions, and clearing preferences. All to no avail. My previously broken stuffit was v. 8 and in reinstalling, I've upgraded to the free v. 9. All of this is on the G5 in my sig.

Thanks in advance

 

[yippy]

I thought mine was to because it just keeps bouncing on the doc and eventualy stops. It did open eventualy, after a few minutes and I had done everything you had to try and fix it. It is better now but still takes 5-10 bounces to open, what is going on here?

 

[maya]

I have also been having the same problem.

However I have "Stuffit AVR" enabled and it works great.

 

[mkrishnan]

Maya, do you mean you have automatic version checking turned *off*? I had this issue and turning it off solved it. There are a couple of threads surrounding that, although it may not be the issue here.... Auto version checking is in the preferences.

 

[sorryiwasdreami]

Yep, I've got Stuffit v9.0 as well and as you would guess, it is dead. I think it started happening after I installed the update for Panther 10.3.7 but I'm not certain.

Anybody have any clues? I can run Stuffit 9.0 by itself (launch via quicksilver) and it comes right up. The problems start happening when a download needs unpacked.

 

[yippy]

WOW, I just turned off automatic version checking and it opened in a half bounce. Totaly did the trick, thanks. Allume needs to fix that feature, unacceptable to make it that slow.

 

[Blackheart]

WOW, I just turned off automatic version checking and it opened in a half bounce. Totaly did the trick, thanks. Allume needs to fix that feature, unacceptable to make it that slow.

Hey! Where's that setting?

 

[Blackheart]

Hey! Where's that setting?

Nevermind, I found it. I was kinda at a loss because I never actually got it to start up all the way and I was curious how I was going to change the preference if it never started up. However, if I wait oh so long, it starts up.

Thanks for your responses everyone. You're all very quick to help!

 

[sorryiwasdreami]

WOW, I just turned off automatic version checking and it opened in a half bounce. Totaly did the trick, thanks. Allume needs to fix that feature, unacceptable to make it that slow.

Hey! That seemed to do the trick! Thanks for the tip.

 

[CanadaRAM]

The problem with all the Stuffit products is that they go out and check the aladdin.com website for updates as soon as they open. But the company was sold to Allume, and this past weekend they moved the website. Doh!

So stuffit has a brain seizure trying to connect to the non-existent page.
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050110003819530

The short answer as mentioned by Yippy is to disable check for updates. Assuming you can get the program to open. of course. There is a Terminal-based fix in the article as well.

Thanks
Trevor
CanadaRAM.com

 

[cazlar]

If you temporarily disable your internet connection, you'll be able to get into the app to change the pref.

 

[maya]

Maya, do you mean you have automatic version checking turned *off*? I had this issue and turning it off solved it. There are a couple of threads surrounding that, although it may not be the issue here.... Auto version checking is in the preferences.

"Stuffit AVR" = Stuffit Archive Via Rename


That is turned on and I love it.

without it, I am having the same problems as the rest, with this turned ON I seem to have found a temp solution.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I was having the exact same issue as the rest of you. Turning off the Automatic Version Checking fixed it - now it opens almost immediately instead of in 20 or so bounces.

 

[mkrishnan]

"Stuffit AVR" = Stuffit Archive Via Rename

Oooh, what does it do? I don't seem to have such an option.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Oooh, what does it do? I don't seem to have such an option.

If I remember correctly, you change a file's extension to .sit (or .sitx) and Stuffit automatically compresses it right there and then. I don't know if it works with .zip and other archives too.

 

[maya]

If I remember correctly, you change a file's extension to .sit (or .sitx) and Stuffit automatically compresses it right there and then. I don't know if it works with .zip and other archives too.

File extensions supported by Stuffit AVR:

.sitx, .sit, .sea, .zip, .tar, .lha, lzh, .hqx, .bin, .uu, .bz2, .tbz, .gz, .tgz, .Z, .taz

That is the list.

 

[YS2003]

The free version of StuffIt (9.0.1 and 9.0.2 update) is working well with my 12" PB + Tiger. I just used Stuffit to decompress the downloaded files.

 

[aussie_geek]

The free version of StuffIt (9.0.1 and 9.0.2 update) is working well with my 12" PB + Tiger. I just used Stuffit to decompress the downloaded files.

Yeah stuffit expander works, but it does not automatically expand after you download a .sit file. Anyone figured out how to fix this??

aussie_geek

 

[YS2003]

Yeah stuffit expander works, but it does not automatically expand after you download a .sit file. Anyone figured out how to fix this??

aussie_geek

When I donwload .sit file to the desktop, I double click on it and StaffIt Expander just opens it. I think that is almost automatic.