Mac OS 9 Lives
Mac OS 9 Discussion => Software => Topic started by: Syntho on April 17, 2016, 11:50:12 PM
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I should know this by now. Whenever an sea, hqx, sit or similar file is downloaded via my FTP, the file is automatically unstuffed in stuffit. Is there a way to disable that?
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I´d like to suggest that we do not fear to ask any question in future. Knowledge and information is such an important thing, and it is different for every person, depending on the usage of their computers ;)
Sometimes researching it together is even much more fun, also if it is something we think we "should" know already.
So; I don´t know it as well for sure. But I have a machine here which has it disabled. So I tried to understand it. Here is my theory: It is connected to the "Internet" Control Panel and the filled in Helper Applications there. So one possibility might be to kick Stuffit as Helper Application completely.
But it seems to be also connected to the preferences of the different Internet applications like webbrowsers (which can do ftp also) or the different FTP clients. It might be that there are programs that "bypass" the Internet Control Panel of the Mac OS completely and need the right values/programs in their own preferences.
And as last involved component is Stuffit itselve. There is a "Internet" point in the Stuffit preferences and there you can switch of every single compression format for "post-processing" when used as Internet Helper Application. My machine here without the annoying automatically decomplression has the most important ones like .sit .zip deselected.
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I too noticed that it seems as if there are multiple ways to do it, or at least multiple areas to disable to get it fully disabled. This isn't too much of a problem, more of a minor annoyance.