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Darksider · Sep 30, 2003, 11:12 AM

Takes forever to extract files on my 12" powerbook? What gives? Takes no time to extract files on my PC.

Super Glitcher · Sep 30, 2003, 07:59 PM

Same here, seems to be *really* slow on expanding large files. I don't really use .sit anymore for large files. Only .zip and compressed disk images using disk copy.

Adam Betts · Sep 30, 2003, 09:40 PM

As soon as you upgrade to Panther, throw everything except Stuffit Expander. Use Panther's built-in Zip compress/uncompress, it's WAY better.

Horsepoo!!! · Sep 30, 2003, 09:49 PM

I wonder if it would have been possible to vectorize that Stuffit compression engine for additional speed on G4s. I don't think we'll ever know.

CharlesS · Oct 1, 2003, 03:03 AM

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
As soon as you upgrade to Panther, throw everything except Stuffit Expander. Use Panther's built-in Zip compress/uncompress, it's WAY better.

How small can it shrink your files, compared to StuffIt? In my experience, .sitx has given much smaller files than .zip...

ryaxnb · Oct 1, 2003, 03:48 AM

Stuffit:
Settings: Better compression
Format: .sitx
resultant size: 33 MB
time taken to compress: 4 mins 20 secs.

Stuffit:
Settings: Faster Compression
Format: .sitx
resultant size: 36.8 MB
time taken to compress: 1 mins 20 secs.

Stuffit:
Format: .zip
resultant size: 36.4 MB
time taken to compress: 45 secs.

Panther ZIP:
Settings: Default
Format: .zip
resultant size: 36.2 MB
time taken to compress: 24 Secs
On PDFs, text and uncompressed TIFFs.
Courtsey of addiecool.

nobitacu · Oct 1, 2003, 05:17 AM

It took me well over half an hour to expand my 700mb file. It's so slow I took a nap in between because I don't want to just sit here and wait. I'm using the 17" with a gig of ram. Why is it this slow? I have no clue, all I can say is... this program's speed wise sucks. I hope Panther's own program will be faster than this slow thing.

Ming

addiecool · Oct 1, 2003, 09:54 AM

Stuffit is definately a POS. It is slow and buggy. I am using Panther 7b80 on one of my machines and it is like hell. After using Panther ZIP I want to recompress al my files to ZIP format. It is fast and great. Only two issues

1. Panther is pre-release so I shall wait for final version

2. Panther deletes the zip file after extracting it. So I lose the original compressed file after extraction. Hope apple will give an option to keep the original file after extraction. But I still feel it is much better than stupid stuffit.

After my above test of different files, I compared stuffit and Panther ZIP more extensively and stuffit lost in every aspect.

Stuffit 8 is worse that earlier releases. It takes forever to start up and Stuffit Deluxe is very buggy.

Alladin do you hear these people?

AssassyN · Oct 1, 2003, 04:57 PM

Wow, I thought it was just me...WinZip on my PC cracks files open in a breeze, but StuffIt takes AGES!

Dale Sorel · Oct 1, 2003, 05:08 PM

Originally posted by addiecool:
Stuffit is definately a POS.

Like how it breaks the executable permissions on every single app it decompresses

addiecool · Oct 1, 2003, 10:39 PM

well well!!! as of 7b80 panther no longer deletes the original archive file after extraction.

Goodbye Stuffit, forever

hyperizer · Oct 2, 2003, 10:50 AM

Originally posted by Dale Sorel:
Like how it breaks the executable permissions on every single app it decompresses

Even worse, at least in 7.x changes permissions on any directory where you unstuff something. This is a major security flaw which hasn't gotten enough press.