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Anti-Stuffit-How to Get Rid of It, and How to Unarchive Downloads Afteward
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My school's web site provides a link to a plug in for Word that handles citations in papers. All well and good, except it's in a filename.dmg.hqx format. I tried opening the file but nothing happened. So I remembered "hey, that's something Stuffit does, so I'll look at that!" Bad idea, but I know that too late.
So I downloaded the free expander-version 11-and installed it, but Stuffit won't expand this file; it just sits there with the "Preparing" notice over the progress bar. Forget this! I uninstalled Stuffit with a flick into the Trash. Now, when I try to open a REdownloaded version of the Word plugin, OS X gives me an error "The operation could not be completed. An unexpected error occurred (error code 10660)."
Now what? How do I get rid of the references to Stuffit, and how do I validate that the download is not corrupt and should work?
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Error -10660 is: kLSAppInTrashErr -10660 The application cannot be run because it is inside a Trash folder.
The obvious fix for this problem would be to empty the trash where Expander currently sits in.
While proprietary formats have their obvious downsides, I find the free StuffIt Expander program to be quite well done and useful. It expands much more formats than just .sit and usually does so well. If it fails there is a good chance the archive is corrupted.
"Unarchiver" is an alternative that was recently mentioned in this forum. You could give it a try. Personally I have not used it.
The Unarchiver
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remove the .hqx extension. (making it just a .dmg)
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Another vote for "The Unarchiver"...it's great.
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Originally Posted by Peter 
remove the .hqx extension. (making it just a .dmg)
That didn't work-it must really be a compressed image after all. And removing the ".hqx" extension changed the attributes to ".dmg" permanently-at least as far as I'm concerned. I'm going to download the plug in again, and look into Unarchiver.
Thanks for all the help, folks. I had trashed the first install of Stuffit because I planned to reinstall and wanted to not install over what might have been a corrupt copy. Somehow OS X decided that the trashed version was the one to use, who knows how or why.
Update: it turns out that the downloaded plugin was corrupt-the checksum didn't check. The Unarchiver did the trick in handling this nice and smooth; unlike Stuffit which choked and froze. Thanks for the advice folks!
(Last edited by ghporter; Oct 28, 2006 at 06:01 PM.
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Safari has a bug where it appends .hqx to all downloaded .dmg files.
How confusing! 
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Originally Posted by Peter
Safari has a bug where it appends .hqx to all downloaded .dmg files.
How confusing!
I've never seen that.
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.hqx means that it is in Binhex 4.0 format. It is a format that will hide all of the Mac data - datafork, resource fork and attributes - in a file that is safe over 7-bit connections. It's like Macbinary or AppleSingle + the base64 encoding from MIME. Binhex was standard for Mac files until the late nineties, by which time almost noone had a connection that relied on files being 7-bit safe. If you don't need the 7-bittiness, you can use .sit or .dmg or whetever - they will all protect resource forks and attributes.
Anyway. Either the .dmg is really encoded with Binhex, in which case you should be able to open it with Stuffit, or the MIME settings on the University server are messed up and Safari is doing the right thing by adding the .hqx extension to them. You can check this for yourself: Open the file in Textedit or BBEdit or whatever. On all Binhex files, the first line tells you that it has been encoded, and then the encoded file begins. If all you see is binary garbage, it's not encoded and the extension was added in error.
If the settings are messed up and the extensions shoudln't be there, Get Info for the file and change the name in the "Name and extension" box. Once that's done, it should open in Disk Utility or whatever.
If the file is really Binhex encoded, then Stuffit should open it. If that won't work, try Openup:
Stepwise
if it still works, it's old by now. There are also about a million UNIX utilities that will open it, and even more in Classic Mac OS - including the original Binhex 4.0. Try these and let me know if it won't work - I have a stash of old decoders, I can probably open the thing for you.
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