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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Fixing Stuffit

If you've tried to use Stuffit Expander recently you've experienced the irritation of it doing nothing for a minute or more as it looks for its now-nonexistent version-checking server. Our knowledgeable friend Ivan over on The Well offers this fix, a series of commands you should enter via the Terminal: 
 defaults write com.stuffit.Expander allowVersionChecking -bool NO
 defaults write com.stuffit.ExpressPE allowVersionChecking -bool NO
 defaults write com.stuffit.Engine allowVersionChecking -bool NO
 defaults write com.stuffit.DropStuff allowVersionChecking -bool NO
 defaults write com.stuffit.DropConvert allowVersionChecking -bool NO
 defaults write com.stuffit.DropTar allowVersionChecking -bool NO
 defaults write com.stuffit.DropZip allowVersionChecking -bool NO
 defaults write com.stuffit.Deluxe allowVersionChecking -bool NO
Alternatively, you can launch the app, wait for the connection attempt to time out, and then change the "Version Check" setting in Preferences.

posted by pbx at 10:01 AM  

3 Comments:

  • Thank you!!! I spent several hours trying to figure it out this morning. What a waste of time.

    By Anonymous, at 11:22 AM  

  • An even faster solution is to unplug/disconnect your internet connection, launch stuffit, turn off the version check option, and then reconnect to the net.

    By Liz, at 12:46 PM  

  • Excellent!!

    Too bad I didn't read this article this morning, when I spent more of my fair share of time waiting for it to open. However, I really appreciate the heads-up.

    By Tomas Sancio, at 2:36 PM  

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