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Stuffing StuffIt!

Published on November 15, 2007 in OS X.

Nearly all Mac users at one point or other will have had to install StuffIt to unzip a legacy SIT file. Unfortunately, StuffIt also associates itself with unzipping Zip files even though OS X comes with its own built-in (and much faster) Archive Utility.

To set my associations back so that Zip files are handled by the Archive Utility I right-clicked (option clicked) a Zip file and selected Open With... -> Other followed by /System -> Library -> CoreServices -> BOMArchiveHelper.

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  1. 1 Ben
    Nov 15th, 2007 at 1:57 pm

    Hi Aral,

    Do you have the Unarchiver installed? It opens even SIT files.

    You can grab it here: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html

    Cheers Ben

  2. 2 Erki Esken
    Nov 15th, 2007 at 2:49 pm

    Yeah, The Unarchiver is all I use as well. Trash that Stuffit crap.

  3. 3 John
    Nov 15th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    3rd recommendation for UnArchiver. Its awesome! It has problems with some RAR files every now and then, so I also have UnRARX on my system for those troublesome RAR files, but for everything else UnArchiver rocks.

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