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StuffIt Expander - 12.0.1

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All Time:	(2.4)
This Version:	(3.5)
Current Version:	12.0.1
Release Date:	2007-11-23
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	194,892
Downloads (all versions):	1,715,204

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Product Description:

Access virtually any file on the Web!
Award-winning StuffIt Expander gives you access to virtually any file you download from the Internet or receive in your email. Expander can handle just about any type of file that comes your way, regardless of whether it was created on a PC or Mac, or travelled across the globe or around the block. And, Expander is easy to use - just drag, drop, and you're done!

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	(3.5)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(3.8)
Ease of Use:	(4.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.0)	Price:	(4.0)

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Great product - Version: 12.0.1, 4/22/2008 02:59PM PST

(3 of 4 users found this comment useful)

dasoe

I use expander for a long time. Though I personally don't use sit-files any more (they do not bring any advantages any more as far as I know but are less "compatible" than other files), I'm very happy that there is Expander, now working flawlessly for me on Leopard. It decompresses not even the .sit files I sometimes still get but simply anything I ever came across, let's see, the official list is this: .sitx, .sit, .zip, .sea, .tar, .bin, .hqx, .cbr, .bz2, .tgz, .lha, .mime, .rar, .arc, .gz, .cbz, .uue, .exe, .cab, .yenc ,.z ,.pf, .uu.
Have you noticed? Not only all the superb compressions of the unix world like .gz, .bz, .rar and so on but even self-extracting .exe files work (on a Mac!) with this utility. I do not know if there is a decompression utility out there as simple and powerful - I don't know one. And in fact I don't need any other, for Expander alone is enough.

PS: Just to avoid misunderstandings: 1) Stuffit Expander is a simple Standalone App, that does not interfere with your system like somebody claimed. - Please do not confuse it with Stuffit Standard or Stuffit Deluxe. 2) It's free and you do not even have to give your email address (although smithmicro tries to get it), please check the post of amcgee below for the link.

Excellent all-expanding app with encrypted zip support for free - Version: 12.0.1, 4/8/2008 05:07AM PST

(4 of 5 users found this comment useful)

meny

I do appreciate that this expander is freeware, because it not only supports many formats that the built-in Mac OS X expander doesn't, but also beautifully opens encrypted ZIP files made on other platforms. Just launch the free StuffIt Expander, drag-n-drop your password protected ZIP file, enter the password and off you go! :)

StuffIt is dead end - Version: 11.0.2, 3/30/2008 04:28PM PST

(2 of 8 users found this comment useful)

Quent

I've used Stuffit since Mac OS 8 days and I'm so miserably sick of it I could scream. Smith Micro should kill this basket case and bury it. It's lame. Worse still, it makes a mess on your Mac.

What ever you do, don't entrust anything to .sitx. You don't want to have to install Stuffit or Expander to uncompress your data in the future.

StuffIt is dead end.