All you have to do is drag and drop the compressed file over the main program window and Stuff-It Expander will decompress the file. The app supports RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP, standard ZIP files among others. It will also scan your compressed files for viruses.

It expands all of your compressed and encoded files and access any file, any download or email attachment. Stuffit Expander has been redesigned for better performance. It’s a fast, efficient archive utility for your Mac and it works with the latest OS X versions. This is why I really like Stuff-it Expander for Mac. Having a good 'unzipping' app is important no matter what operating system you use. Nearly everyone knows that computing means working with archive files such as ZIP, RAR and TAR files.

Automatic preview thumbnail galleries of your imagesThe versions provided below are of StuffIt Classic.Expand your archive files with this handy Mac utility.

Archive photos and files directly to FTP.

Search for files within Zips and StuffIt archives by name, date, and more.

Deluxe added a variety of additional functions, including additional compression methods and integration into the Mac Finder to allow files to be compressed from a 'Magic Menu' without opening StuffIt itself. They split the product line in two, offering StuffIt Classic in shareware and StuffIt Deluxe as a commercial package. StuffIt soon became very popular and Aladdin Systems was formed to market it (the last shareware release by Lau was version 1.5.1). By the fall of 1987 StuffIt had largely replaced PackIt in the Mac world, with many software sites even going so far as to convert over existing PackIt archives to save more space. Compared to existing utilities on the Mac, notably PackIt, StuffIt offered 'one step' operation and compression ratios that could not be matched. It combined the fork-combining capabilities of utilities such as MacBinary with newer compression algorithms similar to those used in ZIP. StuffIt was originally developed in the summer of 1987 by Raymond Lau, a high school student at Stuyvesant High School in New York City.

The proprietary compression format used by the StuffIt utilities is also termed StuffIt. StuffIt is a family of software utilities for archiving and compressing files on the Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms: it was originally produced for the Macintosh and remains common on that platform.

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