Stuffit

Then I double clicked a stuffit archive situated in the downloads folder for this new user. ...

Drag the file to the trash and empty the trash. You may want to change the "Mac OS X God!" thing if your new to the Mac ;),

This may sound really stupid, but I am new to MacOS. How would I delete the classic StuffIt?

I've got the same problem ,but I guess that if you go into the "prefs" of IE and put all the links with stuffit within "file helpers" away. And then goto stuffit(macosx) and select in the prefs all filetypes; it might work out. neo

if you're using os x 1.0, stuffit expander will handle tar.gz files just fine. ...

I had the same problem. Use the non-carbonzied version of Stuffit. The carbonized version sucks ass. It corrupts the installer and you sit on "pre-processing script". Now, when you get it installed, tell me how to set it up.

Speaking of tuk-tuk... yes, nixgeek that sounds right for MPEG-4. Thanks guys. Just a quicky.... Is Stuffit Expander worth keeping from my old/classic G3. Good in compressing files. No? Or useless on the iMac? Cheers.

Control/Right-Click on the file and choose 'Get Info'. Then in the 'Open With' section (click on the black triangle to show more info), from the pull-down menu you can select an app to open the file. For example if it's a: .zip use 'BomArchiveHelper' or 'Stuffit' (especially if the file is password protected, use Stuffit as BAH won't know what to do). .dmg use...

I like the Unarchiver too and I've been using it quite a while now.

I've found that "Unarchiver" is far faster, thorough, and comprehensive than Stuffit Expander. It's free and available from all the usual places. ...