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StuffIt Expander

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Please stop using Stuffit.

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Contributed by: murphs76 Sunday, April 30 2006 @ 07:03 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: NO

Please stop using Stuffit to compress files. Zip is open source and comes native in OS X 10.3 and above. The only reason anyone needs Stuffit Expander is because some people still compress files with Stuffit. Please, please don't compress files with Stuffit.

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Please stop using Stuffit. - DavidRavenMoon

Zipping certain Mac files damages them. Tiger retains the resource fork when zipping, but earlier versions of OS X, as well as most other forms of Zip do not.

I see too many useless Zip archives sent into my job, with damaged PostScript fonts to advise anyone to Zip files on Macs.

Stuffing is safer.

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Sunday, April 30 2006 @ 08:03 PM PDT