What is Stuffit SITx?

http://my.smithmicro.com/stuffitcompression/sitxformat.html

 Cheers, Tom 😉

Sounds like a corrupted or incomplete archive to me. Can you provide the URL to that file so that we can try it out and see if we get the same problem?

Regards.

The link provided earlier indicates that StuffitX files need to have a "backward compatibility" option checked in order to work with earlier Stuffit versions. Perhaps that wasn't checked when the file was made?

I'm running Tiger at the moment and don't even have Stuffit (I use The Unarchiver) but it downloads that archive and produces various files fine.

I don't believe SITx formatted files are Mac OS 9 Stuffit compatible. Ask for the person to change the archive to use the older format of .SIT, and not .SITx.

http://my.smithmicro.com/stuffitcompression/sitxformat.html

Compatibility.
The StuffIt X format was introduced with StuffIt 7 for Mac OS X and for Classic Mac OS. It was introduced on Windows with StuffIt 8.

Newer features of the StuffIt X format such as JPEG compression and MP3, PDF, Zip and image recompression may not be compatible with earlier versions of StuffIt Expander, but it's easy to create StuffIt X archives that are by checking StuffIt 12's "Backwards Compatible" option when creating your StuffIt X archives.

You can use StuffIt X archives made with the "Backwards Compatible" option on any version of Classic Mac OS from 8.6 to 9.x, and any version of Mac OS X. You can also use StuffIt X archives on Windows.

In order to expand a StuffIt X archive, your recipient must have a copy of at least StuffIt Expander 7.0 Mac, or or StuffIt 8 for Windows installed. StuffIt Expander is always free! Send your friends and associates here to download their own copy...

That archive isn't even compatible with Stuffit Expander version 12.0.1. Whoever created it corrupted it upon upload to the server. Ask them to put it back up again, but use binary FTP to do so.

Do the files you unarchived look like viable OS 9 files?

Yes they do. I just did it using Tiger because that is what I run without having to close multiple applications and reboot my computer to OS9. I didn't expect you to do it, but part of the issue seemed to be does the archive posted even contain viable files, which it does indeed appear to contain.. It does not look corrupted to me although I didn't actually test any of the files (since I don't have your device). Now whether or not Stuffit itself can open it is anothe matter, but you'd think Stuffit's own software should be able to expand their own format file if some third party utility can.

Well, Jay Robinson, even though it is a Binhex file right now, it goes through the first stage of processing to produce a Sitx file, doesn't it? The Unarchiver takes it seamlessly through all the steps for me so I didn't see the intermediate files such as the Sitx one.

I'm inclined to say that engrossing as this topic may be, the underlying task seems to be getting uncompressed files onto your computer. To that end it might be easiest for one of us simply decompress the file, recompress the files into a simpler format, and e-mail you the result (add e-mail temporarily to your profile - I have a low-priority junker account for just such things).

I just sent you a copy of the contents of the file in .sit format compressed with DropStuff 7.0.3. Let me know if I need to use an even earlier version of Stuffit such as versions 3.5 or 3.0.5, or some other utility (I also have Compact Pro, and of course several zip utilities).