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Odd Stuffit Expander Error (only w/.gz files)
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kuchiguchi
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Here's the little problem I've been having.
I can download and expand any .sit/.hqx file of my liking. Stuffit Expander (the osx version) opens it, expands it, and leaves me with a new program.
However, I've encountered an ongoing problem with .tar.gz files. Once they download, expander opens them, gets perhaps half way through their expansion, then stops, saying that "a disk error occured (-50)"
Might anyone experience a similar problem or know a solution? This has got me incredibly puzzled and any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
chris
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NY, NY, USA
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Yeah, I've been getting the same thing.
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adaml
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Yes I have had the same problem.
I am going to switch to Openup which is available on Stepwise somewhere.
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Administrator  Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
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Currently, Stuffit messes up .tar files. You cannot use Stuffit to expand them.
I expand from the Terminal using Gnutar. This is a bit of a pain, but works.
I have also heard that OpenUp in combination with OmniWeb will allow .tar downloads to open up properly, but I have not investigated. Pain or not, the Terminal expansion option works and is already here.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Highland Park, IL / Santa Monica, CA
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A word of warning --
any command concerning compression/decompression in the zsh shell results in an error. My tcsh file got corrupted and I had to switch to zsh, and since then I have had no way to expand ".tar.gz" files.
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Be Happy.
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Be happy.
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Austin, TX 78751
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Has anyone noticed how slow stuffit is on OS X? Tar or gnutar are very, very fast in the Terminal. The command you need is "tar -xzf filename"
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Arlington, MA, USA
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I agree with the above.
Now the question I have is, how do you keep Stuffit Expander from automatically launching after IE finishes downloading a .gz archive? I unchecked all of Stuffit's automatic decompression preferences, so at least it doesn't try to unstuff anything and muck it up, but it still launches and then just sits there, and that is annoying. Is there any way to get OpenUp to be the "default" decompressor in IE? or should I just start using OmniWeb?
Thanks in advance.
- Ken
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- Ken A.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Louisiana
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I noticed that IE did startup Stuffit(classic one, not X one) for .tar.gz. I just use Omniweb because it is a better browser. But opening up a terminal and typing gnutar -xzf FILENAME is not painful. It's actually faster since there is no gui. But openup works fine for both .sit files and .tar.gz files. So download OpenUp, do gnutar -xzf filename in a terminal, then use Omniweb. Problems solved.
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