[Joe Northcliffe]

Hello Canadian Mac community,
This is my first post and was hoping someone would have some hints on this problem. My stuffit expander crashes. When I download, I always get an error code 10 and freeze. Am on a G3 which was upgraded from a Power Mac8500/120. Lots of ram.Tried it all (I think). Reinstalling, deleting stuffit preferences. Have rebuilt desktop also. Any ideas would be great. Is it time to buy the program rather than just what comes with OS9 c.d. or download from Alladin free site?
Thanks in advance,
Joe N.

 

[MACSPECTRUM]

which vesion of OS 9?

 

[MacDoc]

Joe try turning off the L2 cache on the G3 software and see if the same thing occurs ( you don't have to restart )

Yes also what OS specifically

 

[Joe Northcliffe]

Thanks for the tip! I am on OS9.1. I did a search for the cache and didn't come up with anything. Where would I find it?
Joe

 

[MACSPECTRUM]

besdies re-building the desktop, any other utilties to check out the machine?

there is a freeware version of techtool "lite" that you can download and it can diagnose some problems

i think it will also give you info. on your card, eg. speed, cache, etc.

http://www.micromat.com/tt_lite/tt_lite.html

 

[Joe Northcliffe]

Thanks, Michael. Will try that. The problem with downloading is that I need expander to expand the .sit etc. files. So I am not getting far downloading anything. Will check out the site though in case I don't need to expand the file. Will also try norton utilities again but didn't do much before. This problem is really stumping me.
Joe N.

 

[Strongblade]

I have encountered problems with Stuffit from time to time. Often, if a file is compressed in a newer form of DropStuff than what you have for an Expander, it can crash.

Also, upgrading is difficult, as Stuffit's own site seems to be unable to download certain choices (timeout error)

I have stuck the installers for the latest version in my Public Folder. Version 7.0.3 for both OS 9 (Classic) and OS X.

 

[Joe Northcliffe]

Thanks Strongblade for the download site. However, same thing happened again. As I install, it installs nicely until it gets to stuffit and wham! Drop stuff, tar, started to install and then after that, it quits. Can't figure out what it can be. This is a real mystery as no one seems to have the right answer yet.
Joe