Alternative to StuffIt Expander

feilkin@sympatico.ca · May 1st, 2005, 10:01 PM

Hallo everyone,

I've been lurking around a bit for the last while, just checking things out. It seems there is a really nice Canadian Mac community here and I'm glad to become a member as well.

For those of you that have done a clean install of Tiger, you may have noticed that there is an application missing that was included with the previous versions of OS X - StuffIt Expander. I am quite aware that I can download it from the StuffIt site, however, I say good riddance. Expander was half-decent, but I am not willing to deal with junk from StuffIt by having to install their "demo" version just so I can get the free expander. That's just dumb.

So, I was wondering if anyone out there had found an alternative for unarchiving .sit and .sitx files. Luckily a lot of people have been moving to more open standards when it comes to downloading things, but once and awhile I still run into .sit and such. I spent a bit of time looking around and couldn't really find much, I'm hoping someone here might be able to point me towards some sort of an alternative, or at least a version that wasn't bundled with their trial version.

Thanks in advance,
Chris

[Edit: Ugh, remind me to turn off "Auto-complete" in Safari. My alias is my email address, and one I no longer use at that. If possible, could a moderator or administrator change my account name to simply "feilkin" or delete this account? Thanks.]

grafico · May 1st, 2005, 11:18 PM

Hello and welcome. I don't have Tiger yet, will hopefully be getting it tomorrow, but have read many threads like yours saying that StuffIt Expander is no longer included with Tiger. Here is a direct link actually to downloading StuffIt, if you still want, via another mac community website. If you no longer want to go to with StuffIt, I have also provided two links which provide other decompressing file software for the mac. Again thanks to MacRumors for these links.

Hope this helps and enjoy.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=122150
http://www.blackdiamond.co.za/bdfreex.html
http://unrarx.sourceforge.net/

feilkin@sympatico.ca · May 1st, 2005, 11:34 PM

Thank you muchly grafico. While I was hoping to find an "all in one" alternative to Stuffit, I guess I will have to wait for someone to come up with a free alternative. For now, I'm just going to continue using StuffIt. Glad I could download it direct + delete the non-"free" parts of the standard demo.

Thanks for providing those links, they were helpful.