Create Useless Archive

[LuKreme]

On 8-May-2007, at 00:39, 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.

I've made THOUSANDS of archives with the finder's "Create Archive"  
and never had a single one fail.

It is almost certainly a problem caused by Stuffit Deluxe 7 (what is  
that, 2001? 2002?).  Get rid of it.

> Any solutions?

Remove all traces of Stuffit from your system.  With SD 7 this will  
take some work. Install the latest stuffit expander (v11 I think).   
Compress it (I use Create Archive in the finder) and throw out the  
application. Take a second to appreciate just how quickly the  
application was compressed. At least half the time as Stuffit would  
take, and sometimes much faster still.

Empty the trash.

On the rare occasions that you get a stuffit file, uncompress  
Expander, drop your .sit on it, and then delete the Expander app.  
Marvel at how quickly the ~20MB file is uncompressed, probably 1/5th  
to 1/20th the time that Stuffit would take to do the same thing, then  
complain to the person who sent you a sit instead of a zip or a dmg.

Well, that's the method I use; it's been working very well for me  
over the last year or so. Before that I just kept Expander around  
uncompressed, but what I found is that on occasions it would take  
over and try to expand gz or tgz archives, invariably screwing them  
up, so I hit on the method described above.

Of course, first thing I did was setup a smart folder for all  
the .sit files on my system, converted them to Finder zips, and then  
tossed the originals.

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husband, a family. I only wish I had more time to seek out the dark  
forces and join their hellish crusade."