StuffIt Deluxe 2010 addresses the latter problem with StuffIt archives that are exceedingly unlikely to be identified as containing viruses by overactive email scanners.Īnd the former problem? That’s where StuffIt SmartSend comes in.
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When you’re dealing with an occasional large file or folder, Mac OS X’s built-in Zip compression and transmitting it as an email attachment will probably work fine.īut if you find yourself regularly needing to send large files to different people, the problem becomes notably more complicated, thanks to the entirely reasonable tendency of email admins to limit the size of incoming attachments, often to about 5 MB, and to reject or simply drop messages containing Zip archive attachments, the vast majority of which are viruses. But in this day and age of terabyte-sized hard disks selling for under $100, the primary reason to compress files is to speed transfers via the Internet. SmartSend and StuffIt Connect - The goal of compressing files is of course to make them consume less space. Include the Windows versions of both, and you can nearly double those numbers. While I was researching StuffIt’s reach in today’s world, Matthew Covington of Smith Micro told me that they served up roughly 2 million downloads of StuffIt Expander in the last year, and sold approximately 90,000 copies of StuffIt Deluxe 2009… on the Mac alone. I’ve never quite understood it – just because a tool is no longer as necessary as it once was doesn’t mean it isn’t useful for lots of people.Īnd don’t be misled – lots of people do use it. It’s interesting – although the Mac world as a whole no longer relies on StuffIt as much as it used to before Apple built Zip compression and expansion into Mac OS X, I often hear comments expressing an inexplicable disdain for StuffIt Deluxe.
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