As a long time StuffIt user (from the beginning) I have to admit to falling off the bandwagon a few years ago when I got tired of paying for updates that added little functionality for my purposes. Along came a need to segment files, and so I finally bought a new version (last was V 9 or 10?).

Other than a few little problems, it works really well so far as I can tell. The compression is a tad slower than the built in archiver of OSX.5 but the compression is about 20% better in my tests! The minor problems both revolve around segmenting, one I almost understand the other I do not (I assume it is a bug).

One can only segment a large file/folder from DropStuff, the Segment command in the Magic Menu will only compress your file regardless of your preferences and settings. Hopefully that is a bug that will be addressed, soon. It would also be nice if one could select a folder and then compress it and segment it with one MagicMenu command.

The larger problem is that DropStuff can only segment a StuffItX file. It would be nice to be able to segment ANY compressed file, especially given that StuffIt 'understands' RAR, ZIP, TAR, Etc. I hope that in ten years sitx will still be supported and understood as a file format since I cannot guarantee that I will have a computer that runs StuffIt.

There is a part of the software called the archive manager - I am still not sure what good this is, other than it seems to let you preview the contents of archives. While that is useful it seems that there may have been easier ways of handling that function than needing a separate application. Just my opinion.

Overall, I think StuffIt gets a bad rap. It compresses things better than other software and does it without much fuss. Too bad segmenting does not work the way I want it to. I was able to create a DropStuff droplet that handles a Stuff & Compress action and that will do what I want, just not the way I want it to - it is rough getting old and lazy...