[X4U] Overzealous Stuffing

[Norman Cohen]

It sounds as though you have "archive via rename" turned on for your 
stuffit installation. Assuming you have stuffit deluxe v.8 or better 
installed on your system (I don't recall if this worked for v.7 or 
not), open system preferences and select the preference pane called 
"Stuffit AVR." Turn off the option to archive via rename and you should 
no longer have the issues you describe.

Norm
Norman Cohen
nacohen at mac.com

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Don Delillo

On Oct 16, 2004, at 9:17 AM, Doug McNutt wrote:

> I was sent an update to review, filename Mathwallah.zip. Eudora 
> running on a Mac 8500 with system 9.1 politely added a space and a 
> digit 1 to the filename to avoid overwriting a previous version from 
> several days ago.
>
> I copied file "MathWalllah.zip 1" to my into my Documents folder under 
> Panther (10.3.5) on my G4.
>
> I selected the text of the filename in OS 10 and edited out the space 
> and the digit 1 to get "MathWallah.zip" which I could see and verify 
> in the Finder window which was in small icon view.
>
> To seal the change I deselected the file by clicking well clear of any 
> icon in the window.
>
> Stuffit LAUNCHED ITSELF and stuffed the file while clobbering the 
> original ! (Well it compressed it, probably with zip.)
>
> The result was a doubly stuffed file called MathWallah.zip. Finder 
> will open it with Stuffit Deluxe. I didn't ask for it and I have no 
> use for it.
>
> Repeating the entire process over several days produces the same 
> result. Changing the name over on the OS 9 box is a workaround.
>
> Is it a feature that I just don't understand?   Somehow I feel silly 
> filing a bug report about it.
>
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