Existing users, 
I stopped updating Stuffit Deluxe when I upgraded to 10.3.0 and stopped using it about a 18 months ago as fewer and fewer mac developers use the .sit or sitx formats anymore preferring instead tar.gz, zip or dmg as their formats of choice. Why spend money or a program that doesn't do all that much when there are freeware alternatives like The Unarchiver and shareware ones like iArchiver around?
Non/little improvement of this utility has basically dried this up as a cash cow. Time to put it out of its and our misery. Your wallet with thank you.
StuffIt Deluxe
Compress, send, and share large files online.
Version: 2010
No longer useful
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: bgrubb Monday, May 12 2008 @ 06:31 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
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No longer useful - bgrubb
"Unarchiver only decompresses. It does not compress."It doesn't need to as dmg compression has been around for ages, zip compression has been built into the MacOS since 10.3, and if you feel like messing with .tar and .z there is always the terminal for older MacOS versions and Archive Utility for 105 and higher.
Sure there are some formats the MacOS can't compress right out of the box but ask yourself 1) how often do you see them and 2) with zip and taz supported on any windows and unix machine worth the name why would you want to mess with the other formats any how?
Tuesday, August 12 2008 @ 06:39 AM PDT
No longer useful - eric.c.brown
Unarchiver only decompresses. It does not compress. Both Unarchiver (free) and iArchiver (commercial, but cheaper for sure) decompress the much older .sit format, but do not handle the .sitx format. I think that this is because .sitx is proprietary.I think that the only thing that iArchiver does is allow you to easily (i.e. drag 'n drop) convert between supported formats. You can do this with the command line version of Stuffit. Also, it does 7z which Stuffit does not do, but there are free versions of 7z de/compression utilities--so, as you say, what's the point?
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Friday, June 20 2008 @ 12:35 PM PDT