Does seem faster, and uses less CPU...though the contextual menu compress still locks up the Finder.
Um...yeah.
If this was an update, that would be cool and I'd be very happy, because Stuffit would finally be working closer to the way I expect it should have to begin with.
As an $80 app? Ridiculous. And the upgrade pricing is equally so.
Unless stuffit is altivec-optimized up the wazoo, I really don't care about stuffit 8. It's painfully slow, it's proprietary. Finder-integrated .zip will at least be multithreaded, like finder file copying currently is. BTW, apple, love the multiple file-copying in one window idea!
I don't get this either. Can anyone clear this up?
They basically allow you to either stuff or stuff and mail the file you're working on from within photoshop or illustrator. When installed they show up under the File-->Automate menu. So, they're just a shortcut.
OK i jumped ship on 10.2.8 and was burned. How is Stuffit 8? Can it unstuff multiple things at once? Is it faster at stuffing/unstuffing? I read there are problems with unstuffing applications, that they won't launch. God it sounds like this company will be out of business before Panther is even out.
Update is out. So no one at all installed it? Can anyone verify if it unstuffs multiple things and at once and faster? I don't want to install it unless it is finally working.
Update is out. So no one at all installed it? Can anyone verify if it unstuffs multiple things and at once and faster? I don't want to install it unless it is finally working.
The update doesn't fix anything other than the "executable bit" issue. Apparently Aladdin thought it would be good security to disable executables in stuffit archives. This of course breaks any app you stuff...
I have the most current version, including the new update. It doesn't seem all THAT much faster, but it has worked fine so far.
As I understood it, the 8.01 update fixed it so that .sit archives would retain UNIX permissions (including marking something as executable). Their newer .sitx format is supposed to do that already, so I wonder if they were trying to steer people toward using that, until Apple asked them to make the change....
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Icons finally don't suck. That's something.
Does seem faster, and uses less CPU...though the contextual menu compress still locks up the Finder.
Um...yeah.
If this was an update, that would be cool and I'd be very happy, because Stuffit would finally be working closer to the way I expect it should have to begin with.
As an $80 app? Ridiculous. And the upgrade pricing is equally so.
Originally posted by Aquatic
Can it finally stuff/unstuff multiple things at once? Is it finally not slower then death?
I can do this for free without any extra software!
# unzip someZipFile.zip &
# unzip someOtherFile.zip &
# tar -xzvf someTarFile.tar.gz &
And they all uncompress at once! $80 saved...
Originally posted by LoCash
Why exactly does Stuffit now have Photoshop and Illustrator plug-ins, and what do they accomplish?
I don't get this either. Can anyone clear this up?
Originally posted by naderby
I don't get this either. Can anyone clear this up?
They basically allow you to either stuff or stuff and mail the file you're working on from within photoshop or illustrator. When installed they show up under the File-->Automate menu. So, they're just a shortcut.
Originally posted by Aquatic
Update is out. So no one at all installed it? Can anyone verify if it unstuffs multiple things and at once and faster? I don't want to install it unless it is finally working.
The update doesn't fix anything other than the "executable bit" issue. Apparently Aladdin thought it would be good security to disable executables in stuffit archives. This of course breaks any app you stuff...
Originally posted by tonton
I'm still using 6.5
Me too.
But expander is 7
Originally posted by Aquatic
I read on VersionTracker Apple made them do that.
The level of intelligence in the VersionTracker comments is roughly equivelant to that of an untrained caterpillar.
As I understood it, the 8.01 update fixed it so that .sit archives would retain UNIX permissions (including marking something as executable). Their newer .sitx format is supposed to do that already, so I wonder if they were trying to steer people toward using that, until Apple asked them to make the change....