stuffit expander on OSX just "prepares" forever

[thretoris]

Dear Folks,

I have a MacBookPro with 10.4. I have downloaded StuffIt standard - with Expander - and when I try to drop bin and hqx on it (have tried Windows Media Player), I get a window that says "preparing" which just goes on forever. No sign of action, no error messages, no forced quit, just nothing. Have tried redownloading StuffIt files _and_ two versions of WMP (both bin and hqx format) in case of corruption or suchlike but same again.

I've never had such a problem before. Freezes and error messages I can do something with but an "infinite prepare" has me stumped. Oh yes, and I also had a scout through the menus and prefs to see if anything obvious needed changing but couldn't find anything that sounded relevant ...

Any ideas?

Edmund

[mattho]

Sigh... I have the exact same problem. My iMac is brand new, and there's no reason why it should 'prepare' forever.

Surely some more people have had this problem?

[ra3ndy]

Sounds like you both are running on MacIntel systems. There's a beta release of Stuffit Expander as a Universal Binary, available here:

http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/universalbeta.html

Give that a shot. If no luck, do a Spotlight search for com.stuffit.Expander.plist and trash it, try again.

[thretoris]

Thanks ra3ndy,

Tried both of these but got same old same old infinite wait At least I know this is a real problem and not just me being dumb.

All the best,

Edmund