Existing users, 
The only reason I have to use Stuffit Expander is to open the .sit/x archives files that I rather stupidly made a between 5 & 2 years ago.
I haven't had a attachment in .sit or .sitx format in around 18 months, nobody seems to use it anymore and PC users certainly don't want anything sent to them as stuffit files.
Stuffit is a unreliable, bloated [approx 5 times larger download than Unarchiver], slow and tends to overrun file associations. I find myself uninstalling Stuffit until I have to use it to expand an old file [something that is happening increasingly rarely- thank the DNA!].
Sadly the rate at which .sitx files open is so slow & also unreliable I don't have the time or energy to open all my archives and re-compress them in another format.
Stuffit Deluxe is even more flaky and incredibly expensive for what it does.
I just wish there was an alternative for opening .sitx files... :~(
StuffIt Expander
expands downloaded file archives
Version: 13.0.2
The only reason to use Stuffit Expander...
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: igamogam Sunday, June 08 2008 @ 03:02 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
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The only reason to use Stuffit Expander... - eric.c.brown
If you have a difficult time downloading and installing 16 M, then I think that you really really really need the better compression methods of sitx.The reason that it takes longer to decompress the Stuffit Archive is because the data is packed more tightly, hence it takes more CPU power to decode. Also, Stuffit *may* be using error correction and checking that the file is intact.
If you made a file five years ago and it does not decompress, then you may have a corrupted file. Yes, it happens. And yes, .sitx has steps that you can take to protect yourself from data loss by using error correction. That takes CPU time!!!
Go ahead, zip all your files. Don't use error correction. Your files will be bigger, and they stand the same chance of being corrupted as your old .sit files which did not use error correction.
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Friday, June 20 2008 @ 02:09 PM PDT