Create Useless Archive

[steve harley]

they whom i call Andrew Brown wrote:
> I created a dozen archives yesterday, using Create Archive, and most of 
> them are damaged and cannot be opened by the Finder or by Stuffit Deluxe 7.
> 
> Any solutions?

is it possible the archives you created with Finder are then 
being unzipped by default by the obsolete version of StuffIt you 
have installed (version 11 is current), which makes them _seem_ 
damaged? if you haven't already, try right-clicking and select 
Open With/BOMArchiveHelper