Working with Stuffit Expander Preferences

You can change the behavior of StuffIt Expander using the StuffIt Expander preferences dialog. To open StuffIt Expander preferences, choose Preferences from the "StuffIt Expander" menu or click the "Preferences" button on the toolbar.

Expansion Preferences

The Expanding Preferences are used to determine how StuffIt Expander goes about the task of expanding an archive or encoded file.

Destination Preferences

The Destination preferences determine where StuffIt Expander will save files that have been extracted from archives, compressed files, or encoded files. You can choose the location where files are extracted. The following options are available: In addition to telling StuffIt Expander where to place items that are expanded, you can specify whether or not StuffIt Expander should place expanded files into a new folder. The preferences set in this dialog are not applied if either of the "Merge Folders" features are enabled.

File Mappings

The File Mappings dialog allows you to determine, individually, which archive and encoded file formats will be opened with StuffIt Expander when double-clicked in the Finder.

If you purchased the StuffIt Deluxe suite, this preference also allows you to choose whether StuffIt X, StuffIt, Zip, Tar or RAR archive will be expanded with StuffIt Expander or opened in browse-mode in StuffIt Archive Manager when double-clicked in the Finder. Compressed Tar archives can also be browsed in StuffIt Archive Manager by assigning bzip2, gzip, and UNIX compress accordingly.



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