#SITX STUFFIT EXPANDER SOFTWARE#

However, several users (including myself) contend that they never had this problem until after upgrading to Expander 5.x. Aladdin asserts this is so, clearly placing the blame on the Explorer bug.

This implies that the post-processing problem should occur even if you are still using Expander 4.5. hqx file the file may open in BBEdit rather than Expander. As pointed out by Mitch Crane, you might also see this happen when downloading a. This is the origin of why StuffIt Deluxe is used instead of Expander when trying to expand some downloaded files. This is still not clear.Įxplorer post-processing bug It is clear that, as Aladdin reported, Explorer does not handle post-processing switching as it should.

#SITX STUFFIT EXPANDER SOFTWARE#

Or there may be a bug in the Internet control panel software itself. This is how the increasing number of duplicate items started to appear in my Internet File Mapping settings (as I described last time).Īll of this may lead to corruption of the Internet Preferences, which would then precipitate some of the other odd symptoms I reported last time. This will happen again if you repeat the process. What I now confirm is that Expander simply adds new items, while letting your modified items remain. With 5.0.1 of Expander we modified these settings on installation, but if you changed them they stayed changed.' Several readers independently confirmed this as well (thanks, Joel Sass, Jeff Moss and Joshua Ochs.)Ĭhanging settings adds duplicates to Internet Preferences Further, if you modify the items that Expander changes (such as by changing the application from StuffIt Deluxe to StuffIt Expander, as I did), launching Expander does not actually overwrite the modified items. Aladdin writes: 'StuffIt Expander 5.1 is the first version of Expander to reset the Internet Config settings when you quit the application. As suggested last time, Expander 5.1 will modify your Internet Preferences settings, even 'overwriting' changes that you have made. We have several updates on this matter:Įxpander modifies Internet Preferences It's true. Last time, we posted a MacFixIt Extra that detailed a problem with StuffIt Expander, Internet Preferences and expanding files downloaded from the Web via Internet Explorer.

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