StuffIt & 10.3.7

[maccatalan]

Hello.

I am sorry to post this message (I feel so dumb) but I tried everything I knew or though about and well ... it is not working yet.

I fully reinstalled my System recently (Archive and Install - not saving users).

Since then Stuffit is not working. It does not even launch ... I tried fixing the permissions (with the utility disk, with chmod in the Terminal) .... I tried installing a newer version of stuffit ... I tried removing all the files related to stuffit and install it again ... I tried executing Stuffit from the Terminal with a 'sudo open' and a 'sudo Stuffit/Contents/MacOS/Stuffit' ...

nothing I tried works and worked.
When I try to open Stuffit Expander, it keeps bouncing in the Dock.

There are no console messages, nothing.

Thanks for your suggestions,
Since almost everything is ".sit" on mac I would like to get it to work but over all to understand what is wrong.
Pierre

[fryke]

I personally guess something went wrong at installation time. You're talking about StuffIt Expander only, right? Not StuffIt Deluxe. The Expander installed by the system should work out of the box when installing and updating to 10.3.7... Try again?

[Ronnie Fitz]

i have dun 3 compleet installs now
and i still cant get stuffit expander to work
it just keeps bouncing in the doc!
i upgraded to a newer ver and it still bounces
in the doc but will not expand anything!!!
Help what can i do!
i did everything maccatalan did and it still wouldent work
it is acting realy stupid it just bounces about 3 or 4 min
then it will stop and i have to force quit it!!!!

[Ronnie Fitz]

also im using 10.3.7
but it did the except thing in the first ver of panther

[albloom]

MacFixit Home Jan 10 1004

StuffIt network check prevents launch:

Over the weekend we received a good number of reports of an issue
where StuffIt, StuffIt Expander, and the StuffIt "Drop" utilities
(DropStuff and DropZip) appear to "stall" at launch -- their icons
bounce in the Dock for up to several minutes before the applications
finish launching. Reader Daniel Maze discovered the cause of this
problem: The StuffIt utilities check for new updates at launch --
over the Internet, assuming a network connection is available -- and
if the Allume servers are unavailable, the update check will cause
launch to stall until the check times out. It turns out that over the
weekend, the Allume update server was apparently down or offline, thus
resulting in these stalls.

Based on the reports we've received so far, this problem appears to
be limited to version 9.0.1 of these utilities. You can avoid this
issue in the future by disabling the "Allow Version Checking" option
in each application's preferences; however, this means that you'll
have to check for updates manually via the Allume website or by using
our sister site, VersionTracker.

Alternatively, you can disable this feature without opening the
application -- useful if the servers ever go down again -- via
Terminal by using the defaults command. For example, to disable
version checking for StuffIt Expander, you simply open Terminal and
type:

defaults write com.stuffit.Expander allowVersionChecking -bool
NO [RETURN]

Where [RETURN] means to press the return key.

>>>> Terminal Commands

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.Deluxe allowVersionChecking -bool NO

[Ronnie Fitz]

Thanks albloom that worked!!!!!!!!

[maccatalan]

thank you for the solution and sorry for not answering to all the previous messages but for some reason I didn't receive the usual email notifications.
but THANK YOU :-)

have a good day.

[ShadowTech]

That worked for me as well.
Thanks.