This will bring up 4 Drag and Drop squares. You can click the Drop Areas button (located in the toolbar at the top of the StuffIt Deluxe application window). IN THE STUFFIT APPLICATION: Drag and Drop: This is yet another very easy way of creating an archive. You can either choose to create the archive in the same folder as the items you are archiving (click "Same As Original"), or you can browse for a new location (click "Browse"). The first time you create an archive using the StuffIt Context Menu, the Tutorial Dialog will prompt you to choose a location in which to save the new archive. This Archive sub-menu allows many compression choices. You can also quickly compress using a different archive format by choosing any of the options in the Archive menu (which is a sub-menu of the StuffIt menu). The default can be Zip, StuffIt X or StuffIt. You can change the default format used by the "Compress" command by launching StuffIt Deluxe, going to the Edit menu, choosing Application Options, and then choosing "Context Menu" from the list in the left side window pane. When using the StuffIt Context Menu, by default the "Compress" command will compress the items you have selected into a Zip archive. Choose "Compress" from the StuffIt menu to quickly combine the files and folders you have selected into an archive. You can select files, folders, or any combination of the two. IN A WINDOWS EXPLORER FOLDER: StuffIt Context Menu (right-click): When you right-click files or folders, the StuffIt menu in the Windows contextual menu provides a fast and easy way to combine and compress those selected items into an archive. Prompts you to select an archive to be opened in the StuffIt application.ĬREATING ARCHIVES (COMPRESSED FILES) The StuffIt application provides several ways to create archives. This Wizard walks you through the creation of a new archive and then walks you though the process of sending that archive via email. This Wizard walks you through the creation of a new archive and then walks you through the process of uploading that archive to an FTP server. The New Archive Wizard button will bring you to a Wizard style dialog that walks you through the process of creating a new archive. The Start Page is a convenient place from which to access all of StuffIt's most useful features. THE STUFFIT START PAGE The first time you launch the StuffIt application the first window that will be opened is the StuffIt Start Page. And the included DropConverter utility lets you batch-convert old StuffIt archives to the new format.USING STUFFIT DELUXE StuffIt Deluxe provides many ways for you to create zipped file or “archives.” The benefit of using the New Archive Wizard is that it provides a way to access some of the more powerful archiving features offered by StuffIt from within a simple step-by-step interface. You can view the contents of an SEA without expanding the file, by choosing Remove Self-Extracting from the Magic Menu that appears in the Finder’s menu bar. Its many compression options are available via contextual menus, and the program now supports the MacBinary III format. StuffIt Deluxe 5.0 is also slower than version 4.5: on a 250MHz PowerBook G3, even with the Fast Compression option enabled, version 5.0 took 4 minutes and 10 seconds to stuff a 103MB folder DropStuff 4.5 took only 3 minutes and 50 seconds.Īlthough Aladdin stumbled with this version of StuffIt Deluxe, the program’s not all bad. But when I stuffed a folder containing ResEdit 2.1.3 and all its components, the StuffIt 5.0 archive was 4K larger than its DropStuff 4.5 counterpart. Compressing a folder with 25 PICT files, StuffIt Deluxe 5.0 did create a smaller archive≡00K versus Aladdin DropStuff 4.5’s 116K. What the update won’t address is StuffIt Deluxe 5.0’s new file format: archives you create with this version can’t be opened with an older version of StuffIt Deluxe or StuffIt Expander.Īladdin claims that StuffIt Deluxe 5.0 increases compression by about 20 percent over previous versions, but that number depends on the files being compressed. Aladdin claims that these kinks will be worked out by the time you read this.
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