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StuffIt is primarily a Mac OS format for file compressionand archiving. Unlike most other standards, it was designed with theMac OS dual-forked file structure in mind, andhas the capability to store several files and even entire folderhierarchies in one stuffed archive.

Although StuffIt is still sometimes used in Mac OS X, Appleand many other developers now distribute programs as diskimages instead. In OS X 10.4 (Tiger), Apple stopped bundlingStuffIt Expander with the operating system, though it isstill available for download.

Stuffed files can usually be identified by the .sit or.sitx extension at the end of theirfilenames. Safari, Firefox, InternetExplorer, and other Internet applications are able tounstuff and decode archives with the help of StuffIt Expander.

Stuffit Archive

StuffIt Expander - Mac. Free tool to expand StuffIt files and ZIP archives, as well as RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP archives, and more. StuffIt Expander - Windows. Free tool to expand SITX, ZIP, ZIPX, SIT5, and RAR archives. Includes context menu support in Windows Explorer. The sit file extension is used for StuffIt Expander archive format, that is mainly used on Mac.StuffIt Expander works also under Windows OS. StuffIt incorporates the functionality of StuffIt Expander, DropStuff, DropZip, and DropTar into one convenient program which can create and access email attachments and downloads, protect data, and transfer files. Usually the archives on MAC could be extracted with the default extracting utility. Just double click on the downloaded archive package and it would be extracted into the same directory. To extracted the files with Stuffit Expander software open the Stuffit Expander, and holding the mouse drag the archive package to the Stuffit window. StuffIt Expander is a file compression and expansion utility that can handle a number of different file archive formats. It's a free app available from the App Store and several other Web sites.

Stuffit Archive For Mac