Maybe this, Mat?

GrabbyWindow_206 Trial Version

It opens under OS 9 but I've no registration or serial number.

I tried for several hours now to get the program GrabbyWindows. I even could not find exact informations about the latest Mac OS 9 version. The earliest version from the former website https://web.archive.org/web/20041010023721/http://www.end-if.de:80/E/Downloads/GrabbyWindow.html of "GrabbyWindow.sit" I could find (v. 2.5), is already a X program. Also the version from 2014 you can find at the archive is the X version.

Anybody around who got it? The company seems to be out of business for a decade.

Where is it possible to find a disk island with mbox protools le 5.2 and update 5.2.1 that can no longer be downloaded from the site?

Stuffit Helper is actually a menu you get on the left upper bar (alongside edit, special etc...) and it gives you direct access to a command once you've selected a folder or a file without having to launch/find the app you need (see second pic)

Stuffit Deluxe 7.0.3 is quite nice as it includes many apps like dropzip, droptar, secure delete etc...

Appreciate the explanation. Still not sure what actual use it might be - or what purpose it might have originally been intended to serve. (.sitx files?) But whatever the case, it does sound best to leave that “helper” disabled.

And as far as the 7.0.3 package goes, did you also install the OS X option as well?
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/stuffit-standard-edition-703

I’ll stick with Version 6.0. But thank you indeed for the heads up.

Hello

the issue is not about compressing folders/files with DropStuff but about selecting numerous files within a folder (for whatever purpose: moving, using labels, deleting and why not compressing...). And it seems the Stuffit Helper app is preventing that process (selecting) to happen.

Stuffit Helper is part of the Stuffit Deluxe 7.0.3 package and by default it is launched on startup (which you can modify by deselecting it from your startup items).

I gave it 15000K memory (recommanded size is 8669, something like that).

Once it is disabled I have no problem selecting 300 files or more within a folder, it takes more time than say 40 or 50 but it is possible.

I have different versions of Stuffit Expander/Drop Stuff on the volume I use most, from time to time, Stuffit 7 can't expand properly .sit files so it's good to have older versions: 6.0 and 5.5 

Thanks Jubadub. I’d forgotten all about the “Limit Breaking” Mac OS ROM 10.2.1 Modification of 2017 and only downloaded (now eight years later) installed and tested it last night on an MDD 1.25 GHz DP. It worked - but more on that later.

Considering that BimmyLee is currently running an MDD with Mac OS ROM 9.6.1 maybe an “updated” clean install of OS 9.2.2 from the Forum’s “Universal Install” [https://macos9lives.com/downloads] might first be warranted, even before the Mac OS ROM 10.2.1 Modification?

Mac OS ROM 9.6.1 shipped with the original MDD and was very soon thereafter updated to Mac OS ROM 10.2.1. Who among us is still running an MDD with Mac OS ROM 9.6.1?

And considering that BimmyLee’s MDD might still have its’ original hard drive AND all of the possible 20+ years worth of accumulated useless, space-taking and performance-choking clutter… it might be time for a new drive, SSD, etc.? (And possibly relegating the old drive to retirement or onboard slavery as a second drive?)

Of course it could be interesting to see what effects the Modification might provide installed over an original Mac OS ROM 9.6.1 - or if it’s a prerequisite to already have Mac OS ROM 10.2.1 installed before the Modification.


If you find it difficult to view the above image (and numbers) clearly, you might simply drag it to your desktop for viewing. Or temporarily switch to the Forum's "Blu" theme.

Again perhaps with my reference to what I assumed that most know: how much memory have you allocated to “Drop Stuff” (Stuffit Helper?) Preferred Size?

https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7487.msg58027#msg58027

And any idea just how large your file folder (of over 100 files) might actually be? So large perhaps that it is simply “choking” Stuffit? You might need to break those over 100 files into two or more separate files too - and then attempt Stuffing in that manner.

Maybe you aren’t using “Drop Stuff” (from the Aladdin Folder) which I believe is included with the OS 9.2.2 Universal Installer, within the Internet Utilities folder. And you might try another version from: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/stuffit-deluxe . And thanks to your question, I just registered my copy of 6.0 with a code found there for 6.0.



And yet I can’t find any specific reference to “Stuffit Helper”. G’luck.

But by "the clock runs endlessly" you really mean endlessly? Not coming back after calculating stuff forever e.g. for 5 minutes?

I gave up after a few minutes, 3 or 4...

I've had the weirdest stuff with StuffIt products happening to me over the years, so it doesn't really surprise me. But by "the clock runs endlessly" you really mean endlessly? Not coming back after calculating stuff forever e.g. for 5 minutes?