EMPTY! - lains_navi

While I'm sure this is too late to be much good, I do know why it would do that... late is better than nothing I guess.

Stuffit backward compatibility is... well... no good. The reason it doesn't work is probably because you were using Stuffit 8 or later. It's good to keep a copy of Stuffit 7 around for such occasions. I'm able to unarchive it just fine in Stuffit 7. The fact that this is a problem Aladdin doesn't address this issue even after many updates leaves me thinking that their company is unreliable if you consider backwards compatibility important.

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Thursday, November 10 2005 @ 01:45 PM PST

Answer to "EMPTY!" - Tee Jay

You probably downloaded the file to your desktop, right? And then tried to expand it on your desktop? That's a no-no. There's something about how StuffIt Expander (even the latest version) decompresses files that makes the contents of an expanded folder invisible right after expanding the folder. The same thing happened to me when I double-clicked on kilometre.sit on my desktop (I'm currently running Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.10). Here are a couple of tricks that work for me:

1. Create a new folder on your desktop (or anywhere else) by going to the File menu and selecting "New Folder". You can just leave the new folder named the default "untitled folder" if you wish.
2. Drag the .sit file into the new folder.
3. Open the folder.
4. Double-click on the .sit file, then wait until StuffIt Expander has finished expanding the archive and quits itself automatically. You should now see the expanded folder next to the .sit file, and this time the files will be visible when you open the expanded folder.
5. You can now move the expanded folder wherever you want, and then delete the temporary folder that you created in step 1.

Another way to work around this issue is to use The Unarchiver, another (and in my opinion, much better) freeware utility that can expand .sit files. Here's the procedure:

1. Install The Unarchiver.
2. Get Info on the .sit file (to do so, click on the file, then click on the File menu and select Get Info).
3. In the Info window, look for "Open with:" and then click on the application menu beneath it (note that you may need to click on the arrow next to "Open with:" first to reveal the application menu). In the application menu, click on "Other..."
4. Browse to the folder where you installed The Unarchiver. Click on The Unarchiver when you find it (then if desired, click on the "Always Open With" checkbox), and then click on the Add button. The file's icon should change. Close the Info window.
5. Double-click on the file to open it in The Unarchiver. You should then see your expanded folder, which should contain all the right items.

To the author of Kilometre: Please consider ditching the proprietary StuffIt format. A more preferable way to package Mac OS X software is in a flattened disk image (.dmg) file, or a zipped .dmg file.

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Saturday, July 07 2007 @ 02:08 PM PDT