![]() ![]() Recovering Old Knowledge for Data Migrationġ. Not only did he provide some suggestions on what the problem with my archive file was, but also brought me up to date on the StuffIt technology. I contacted Matthew Covington, Senior Director of Product Development at Smith Micro in Watsonville, CA where the StuffIt team is. Its big brother, the full featured StuffIt Deluxe was widely used to create and encrypt archives that could easily be sent via e-mail.Įventually, Aladdin became Allume, and in 2005, Allume was purchased by Smith Micro Software. StuffIt Expander a simple utility to expand archives, was a standard third party add-on for all Macs up until Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger. StuffIt quickly became the de facto standard for compressing and archiving files in Mac OS, especially in 1990s when we had relatively limited and expensive disk storage. Recall that Raymond Lau developed StuffIt in 1987 and Aladdin Software was formed to market it. My next step was to figure out the chronology of the company, Aladdin, and the technology. And then, of course, my next thought was, mindful of the Snow Leopard upgrade I just did on some fairly new Macs, "What if a day comes, because of technical developments, that I can no longer open those archives? Will the current version of StuffIt Expander work all the way back to the beginning of StuffIt technology? What tools might I need to keep current? I decided to find out. A search with PathFinder showed that I had 2,882. That got me curious about how many StuffIt archives I had accumulated over the years. had also been encrypted, maybe by another app.was missing a needed resource fork (from Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X days).So it appeared that I may have had a file that: sit files and they "unstuffed" just fine. ![]() So I dragged the archive to Stuff Expander 12, the latest version I had, and got this error message:Īnnoyed, but not alarmed, I did some investigating. ![]() The other day, I was working with some very old financial archive files on my Mac. Even so, looking back in time can be the real issue. Even though StuffIt is in wide use in certain circles, many home users aren't planning a future with it. Government and university archivists worry about it a lot and so should you. You will also notice that you have a lot more hard drive space - roughly 4 times as much, in fact, than what you would have without the StuffIt program.Data migration into the future is one of those things that Mac users should think about from time to time. When you're finished, you'll find that your computer's speed is much faster. Compression takes longer when done using the uncompressed option, but not nearly as long as it would take with the zipped and encrypted options. These formats include the zipped, uncompressed and the encrypted formats. The StuffIt Deluxe tools allow you to choose various compression formats for your files, which are compressed by StuffIt itself. ![]() Instead, once you've installed the software on your computer, you simply choose a destination for the files you want to compress - whether it's a Windows CD, a MAC Flash Drive, an iPod/iPhone or some other device - and begin compressing files as you go.Ĭompression is accomplished through the use of a variety of StuffIt Deluxe tools including the StuffIt Revolver, the StuffIt Splitter and the StuffIt Express. However, unlike iTunes, the StuffIt software does not require any downloads on your computer before you can use it. Like iTunes, StuffIt can be used to control the speed of downloads on your iPod or iPhone using a compression format that's compatible with the Macbook, iPod Touch and iPhone. Much like iTunes, StuffIt allows users to easily create, manage and organize digital files such as music, movies and photographs. It was initially developed only for Macintosh computers, however, and is now available for Windows as well. StuffIt Deluxe is an extremely popular online file and task creation utility developed by Smith Micro Inc. ![]()
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