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Stuffit just bounces, bounces...

wowser

wowser

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Jan 25, 2004
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I have had no problems with Stuffit up to today. I downloaded a .zip file this morning and it opened it no trouble. However, later today I dowloaded an .sit file: the Stuffit icon popeed up but just stayed bouncing there for about 30 seconds. Then it stopped bouncing but still didn't do anything. It took 2 minutes to open a 86k file!. I have downloaded a few more .sit files today and the same thing happens. Please help!
 
I rebooted and all seems slow and jumpy again with Stuffit. Also, Safari just decided to restore all the default settings all of a sudden just now, and is now asking me to make some sort of new Key Chain!
 
wowser said:
I rebooted and all seems slow and jumpy again with Stuffit. Also, Safari just decided to restore all the default settings all of a sudden just now, and is now asking me to make some sort of new Key Chain!
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Yikes. What OS version are you running? What did you unzip before? Was it a new application install? Did you repair permissions? As jsw said, backup if you can.
 
I've repaired permissions but still have these odd probs. You may have noticed my other thread 'Fed up with my Mac' lol. I am going to back up what I can. Ah well, I don't think 5gb of music will fit on a CD, but I"ll save what I can. How do I do a copmplete reinstall if things went badly?
 
Check to see if version checking is turned on, and if so, turn it off for now. The Allume web site support area is somewhat troubled at the moment and Stuffit may be repeatedly checking for that update, never connecting, and slowing its real work.

You've probably done this already, but if that zip file that nicely unzipped then installed some software, run repair permissions. {Edit:yea, I see you've done that.]

Let us hear how it gets solved!
 
JDar said:
Check to see if version checking is turned on, and if so, turn it off for now. The Allume web site support area is somewhat troubled at the moment and Stuffit may be repeatedly checking for that update, never connecting, and slowing its real work.

You've probably done this already, but if that zip file that nicely unzipped then installed some software, run repair permissions. {Edit:yea, I see you've done that.]

Let us hear how it gets solved!
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I had the same problem,disabling version check did the trick, its fine now thanx :)

and wowser just double click on stuffit expander let it bounce for a while than it will stop and than it will laucnh than go tot preferences disable version check it will be fine ;)
 
The worrying thing is that when it stops bouncing and i click on it, it doesn't display a contextual menu in the menu bar - that is, clicking on it does nothing. When i hold down click on it, it gives the option for Forced Quid, rather than just 'Quit' which worries me. Perhaps I will be able to select preferences once their web site is working again?

EDit: After even more waiting, it finally threw up the menu. I disabled the version checking and it works perfectly now. Thanks a lot guys! :p
 
I've been having the same problem, so I'll disable version checking too and hopefully that'll fix it here too :)
 
Hopefully I am not hijacking this thread with this question:

What about failures to expand SITX files. I had to get a separate program since Stuffit did not like certain RAR files.
 
Ha! Funny! I started to have the bouncing problem yesterday without any reason! Will disable version check to see if it helps... I hate Stuffit...
 
I was wondering about this when Stuffit started misbehaving yesterday, wondering if I had to perform the long overdue annual clean install. But since disableing helped I can push that even further. :p

If you manually try Help -> Check for Updates the browser tries to access a page on www.producturlsupport.com without finding anything, and times out after a while...
 
Check to see if version checking is turned on, and if so, turn it off for now. The Allume web site support area is somewhat troubled at the moment and Stuffit may be repeatedly checking for that update, never connecting, and slowing its real work.

And I thought everyone read every posting. :p
 
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