Any alternative to Stuffit Expander?

Helen,
Not a direct answer to your question, but Stuffit Expander crashing did ring a bell. I turned up Stuffit Expander FAQ from Allume's site that may help you.

If that link doesn't get you the exact FAQ, you can go to the general support page at <http://support.allume.com/techsupport/index.php>. The FAQ is listed in the green box on the right hand side.
Matt

Helen,
A follow up to my previous post. If you can't get Stuffit Expander to work with the above tip of turning off IPv6, I did track down a command line binary that should do the trick for you. You can download a precompiled "unrar" for Mac OS X at <http://www.rarlab.com/rar/UnRar30MacOSX.tgz>.
Matt

Helen,
I assume you are trying to use Stuffit 10.0; if you are still having trouble, the old Stuffit 8.03 works well on Panther and Tiger. Who knew . . .

Helen,

Sorry - should have read your message more carefully; Stuffit 8.02 does work, but if you need to unpack .rar files, MacPAR Deluxe does it nicely. Go to http://www.xs4all.nl/~gp/MacPAR_deLuxe/

Sorry, I don't mean to step in on Loren's help, but the download of MacPar deluxe is a .sit file. You need Stuffit Expander to open it. I see a never ending circle here.

The command line tool unrar that I mentioned comes in a .tgz file. This can be opened by Stuffit Expander OR using the Terminal command:
tar -xzvf <path to the file>

You can simply drag and drop the download to the Terminal window to get the "path to the file". The .tgz file will then be uncompressed and placed at the root of your Home directory.

Matt

Helen,

Catch 22, I fear. Your MacPAR download is compressed, and you need Stuffit Expander to decompress it.

Get Stuffit 8.02 PLUS THE 12/15/2003 UPDATE (15 day free trial) at http://www.download.com/ (search for "Stuffit 8"). Stuffit 8.0 will download uncompressed, so you can install it on your computer. Use the update, then use 8.02 do decompress MacRAR.

I have Mac OS X (10.4.3) and just reconfirmed all of the above. Works fine. Good luck.

I bumped into this thread as I was looking for a solution for my seemingly broken Stuffit Exp 10 which, as of today, packed in.

So, do I gather from all your posts that Stuffit and Tiger 10.4.2 don't go together anymore? Are we waiting for a fix from Allume? Or is my (and apparently all these other people's) problem just sporadic, not affecting every Tiger machine?

Alex,

Stuffit 10.0 has worked fine on both OS X 10.3 and 10.4.x (currently running 10.4.3) on my computer, with no problems. Methinks Helen has an isolated problem - perhaps some software/preferences conflicts - whereby it doesn't work on her machine until her problem is fixed.

In the meantime, I have found Stuffit 8.02 (with 12/15/03 update) to be the salvation whenever Stuffit 9 or 10 doesn't work for whatever reason.

Alex,
Did you try the solution that Allume has in its FAQ? I posted the link in my first response. It involves setting the Network preference for IPv6 to automatic.

If that doesn't work, you can download a Stuffit Expander 9.02 in a disk image format directly from Allume's ftp server.

EDIT: Corrected URL link

Matt

All:

Time for me to drop out of this thread. Stuffit 9.02, in my experience and in the experience of most others, does not work with OS 10.3.x and later, which is why they released 10.0. Stuffit 8.02 curiously works. Good luck.

I haven't checked out the FAQ solution yet over at Allume's site, but here's what happens with me (and, yes, my IPv6 is set to Automatically for all Network configurations in the current location - AirPort, Ethernet, FWTM, Internal modem, and Bluetooth):

I double click a .rar file. Stuffit Expander 10 fires up, the progress bars start filling for each of the extracted files as if they are actually being built from the .rar archive, then after the last one Stuffit quits and occasionally informs me that "An error occured during the Stuff [???] operation. Error #-37" (BTW, I am trying to UNstuff, not stuff things...) But, then again, sometimes I get no message whatsoever.

In any case, after Stuffit has quit, I end up with no extracted files. Just the original .rar. Bum!

Things used to work alright until yesterday. Haven't changed anything since yesterday. Only downloaded the latest Onyx and run the Automator to empty some system caches and repair permissions. About a month ago I was puzzled as Stuffit 9.0.1 kept informing me that there was the 9.0.2 update which I downloaded, ran and then saw that Stuffit kept informing me that there was the erm... 9.0.2 update and did I want to download it? Oh, and it still reported itself as 9.0.1 even though the 9.0.2 updater had been properly installed. But then, EXP10 came out and I installed it next to the v9 folder which includes DropStuff. That's all. A bit of a palaver, really.

hi helen,

for .rar files, try unrarX ( http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15272)

-emory

So does StuffIt Expander 7.0.3, which is what I'm still using. I just keep moving it from install to install, and it just keeps working.
Francine

Unlike others, I have gotten Stuffit Standard/Expander v 9.0 (build 782 created Sept 18, 2004/modified 12/1/04) to work on my imac G5 while using 10.4.0 for sure and I think I've used it under 10.4.2 as well, but I can't be sure ... but pretty sure.

However, could not at all get version 10.x to work -- it is a DUD!

Hope this helps.