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Please Don’t Stuffit Anymore

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This is a call out to all Macintosh OS X users out there. Why do you still use stuffit?

There was a reason back in the days of Mac OS 9 that you needed stuffit. But now that OS X includes its own “archiving” program. There is no need for stuffit anymore. Zip is a valid way to archive things and mostly every computer will be able to open it.

If you don’t know how to zip something in Mac OS X here is a quick tutorial:
1. Find the file/folder that you want to zip.
2. Right click on the file/folder.
3. Select create archive of…
4. Done.

I know stuffit has a free program of its Stuffit Deluxe program, but i don’t understand why they are still in business.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 19th, 2007 at 3:45 pm and is filed under Apple. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Please Don’t Stuffit Anymore”

  1. LRHB Says:
    February 20th, 2007 at 10:31 pm

    Oh.My.God. Can I second that? When I see .sit files, I’m like… wtf… this isn’t 1996, you don’t need to save all your pictures as .bmp, and your Word docs will work just as good on your PC as they will on your Mac.

    Oh and also, I’d like to mention that if you’re a Mac OS X user: no, you don’t need stupid Norton Antivirus, and yes, the salesman who sold it to you lied.

  2. Weston MA Says:
    March 5th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    Hear hear! For some reason people keep learning all these different methods of packing files that are just plain _bad_. Please zip up programs in _one_ zip file, don’t break it up into a million zip files, don’t use stuffit THEN zip, etc etc.