Stuffit or IE Problem.. Please Help

[jshifflett]

Not new to computers, but brand new to Mac. Just purchased a new powerbook and tons of software for it. All is going well, but have a, probably stupid question.

When I down load anything compressed, it tries automatically to extract it. I have told IE not to do any automatic extracting but something is still doing it. I think it is Stuffit. Any ideas on how to turn that off? All of the software is at the latest versions.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[michaelsanford]

Have you removed StuffIt from the Helper Applications in Internet Explorer -> Preferences?

Out of curiosity, why do you want to disable that?

[jshifflett]

Well, I download a ton of things per day, not only for personal, but for work when I am testing our web applications and things of that nature. I am ok with it self extracting automatically, but what it does is stuffit launches and opens up the file and shows the contents in a window right on the desktop. It just annoys me. I would rather be able to download things and just extract them later.

I will check the helper applications. I thought about doing that but wanted to see what others would reply with.

[michaelsanford]

Well, Internet Explorer will search through the list of helper applications, when you click on a file. If the file is HTML it will parse and display it, if the file is a .RAM it will pass it to RealAudio, and da da da daaaa if it's a ZIP ARC SIT GZIP etc it will pass it to StuffIt and decompress it.

If you don't want that, remove all the instances of StuffIt from your Helper Application list in Internet Explorer, and any other browsers you use, and then make sure that StuffIt Expander doens't have a Watch Folder enabled.

That should fix everything...

[jshifflett]

That worked. Thank You.

[michaelsanford]

Anytime...

[twister]

I was wondering about how to do that. I just use Chimera and Stuffit doesn't open anything without my say.

Twister

[michaelsanford]

Indeed, because Chimera doesn't have an implementation of helper applications it doens't know it can pass it to another app once it's downloaded.

I think they might add this later though.