Stuffit

Try clicking on the desktop to bring the Finder up, and wait a second or two. Or, hide Explorer (or NS or Omni or whatever) and click on the desktop and wait a second or two. This is assuming you're downloading your files to the desktop. If you're downloading to a folder, click on another app, like the Finder or Explorer or whatever then bring your focus back to the...

did you drag and drop onto stuffit expander or similar decompression device? ...

I downloaded it, and stuffit expander says that it cannot read it because it is not compressed or decoded. I really want to play. How can I make it work? ...

Exactly when did they remove forked file support from HFS? My memory is that HFS+ actually expanded it to n-forked files. So give them zips or gzipped tarballs. This whole debate is just silly. OSX currently has the best metadata support of any OS on the market, via plists and forked files. Why should we retreat just when other OS's and file systems are...

yes. of course. dumb of me that i didn't even think of that. sure, i'll convert to windows. are you crazy?! we have the ability to use 255 characters in a filename in Mac OS X. why should i lose that if the OS uses extensions instead of type/creator information? of course the old system has its advantages. it's never just black and white. but to completely bring the old...