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Heironimus
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on: June 08, 2006, 01:15
I recently obtained a PowerMac 9500 and I have upgraded its OS to System 7.6.1, but am having a little trouble installing some of the items available on this fine website. I am new to Macintosh, so I apologize if I ask some dumb questions. The specific two items I am having trouble with are the Flash Player 5 (flashplayer5.sit) and the Speed Doubler 8 (sd8.sit) downloads. When I try to open them with Stuffit Expander 5.5 (also obtained from this site) I get the following error: The application “unknown” has unexpectedly quit, because an error of type 3 occurred. Other *.sit files have worked fine. It is just the two I have listed above that give me trouble. Any advice or assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matt |
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #1 on: June 08, 2006, 01:33
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What browser did you use to download them? Perhaps they are incomplete, and a re-downoad is in order? I don't believe anybody has ever reported this problem before. Wast this a clean install of 7.6.1? Or did you upgrade from a previous version that was already installed on the computer?
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Heironimus
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8 MB Posts: 9
Reply #2 on: June 08, 2006, 02:23
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I upgraded from System 7.5.3 to 7.5.5 to 7.6 to 7.6.1 over the course of the last few weeks. I have tried downloading it with IE Version 5.01 and Netscape 4. They both seem to have the same problem.
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Heironimus
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8 MB Posts: 9
Reply #3 on: June 08, 2006, 02:26
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Actually I did do I clean install when I installed 7.6 (the installer created a new system folder and renamed the old one).
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Heironimus
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8 MB Posts: 9
Reply #4 on: June 08, 2006, 03:03
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I have another correction to make. I am not sure I have ever gotten a *.sit file I’ve downloaded to work properly. I have gotten files with the name *.sit.hqx to work, but I don’t think I’ve been able to successfully download and use a *.sit file.
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #5 on: June 08, 2006, 03:04
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Hmm well I just downloaded them both on two machines at they opened fine. Instead of double clicking on the files to open them, try launching Stuffit Expander individually and then opening them by going to File -> Extract. Also, Internet Explorer 5.02 is the latest version for Mac OS 7. You can download that also from this site. Oh yes, if you downloaded the files partiall once, they may be stored in cache so they will keep downloading the same incorrect files. Before trying to re-download them again (in IE) be sure to reset your history and clear your cache in the preferences. Finally, you can try re-installing Stuffit Expander.
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #6 on: June 08, 2006, 03:12
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I just realized I had typos on the IE 5 page that said it was 5.01. It is actually 5.02. I have corrected these.
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sierraredd
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128 MB Posts: 212
Reply #7 on: June 08, 2006, 04:39
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I have had the same problem over the years with unstuffing things, I have found that draging the item (*.sit) to be unstuffed to the stuffit expander icon and dropping it on to it and it unstuffs. Hope that helps.
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Heironimus
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8 MB Posts: 9
Reply #8 on: June 08, 2006, 05:09
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Status Update I cleared the Internet Explorer cache. I deleted Internet Explorer and installed what I believe to be Internet Explorer 5.02. In the about box is says Version 5.0 (2022) Release 36. I deleted StuffIt Expander and reinstalled version 5.5. I downloaded the flashplayer5.sit file using IE. When I double-click on the file I get an error message saying StuffIt cannot be found. If I try to Expand the file manually using StuffIt, I get the error message from my original post. I then tried downloading the file with Netscape 4.05 (by the way, the site’s softwareguide.html file does not work correctly with Netscape 4.05 – but then again nor to most web pages out there today). When I download the file with Netscape, I get the same error whether I double-click the file or manually try to Expand it. The error I get is the same one from my original post. I tried downloading the sd8.sit file using both browsers and got the same error messge. At this point I see I have a few options: 1. See if anyone has the Flash Player 5 for Mac in a different format I can download. (I’ve looked some and have not found it. Not even Adobe (Macromedia’s new owners) has it on their website.) 2. Wipe the hard drive and start over (at least that is what I do on Windows boxes when they start acting weird like that). 3. Just do without Flash Player 5 and Speed Double 8. Any recommendations or advice? Thanks, Matt
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #9 on: June 08, 2006, 05:54
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Well... you really do want Speed Doubler 8's 68k emulation installed, as half of the operating system is still emulated 68k code. I don't know what this could be I never personally experienced this. Try trashing Stuffit Expander's preferences (found in the System Folder). Also, one more thing you can try is this... Open Extensions Manager (in Control Panels in the Apple Menu). Make a note of which set is currently active. Then, select File -> New Set. Name it "Stuffit Only" and then disable every single thing (can be done quickly by unchecking the box next to control panels and extensions). Then, underneath extensions, enable only the Stuffit Engine. Click restart. Once it restarts, try unstuffing again. If it works great, if it doesn't then I'm not sure what could be wrong. If it does work, DO NOT INSTALL SPEED DOUBLER OR FLASH YET. Instead, go back into the Extension Manager, and reselect the previous set so that all your extensions and control panels are activea gain, and then restart. After this, you can proceed to install SD8 and Flash.
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Heironimus
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8 MB Posts: 9
Reply #10 on: June 09, 2006, 14:56
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I have not had a chance to try the latest suggestions. I will try to get to it this weekend and post the results. Thanks for you help.
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Heironimus
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8 MB Posts: 9
Reply #11 on: June 10, 2006, 06:23
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Success! Well I deleted Stuffit Expander's preferences, but that did not seem to help. So I proceeded to try and disable the “Stuffit Engine” from the Extensions Manager, but could not find it. So I decided I should try re-installing Stuffit Expander 5.5 again (I though I had already tried that once before, but maybe I didn’t). After re-installing Stuffit Expander 5.5, the *.sit files started working. Hurray! I was able to install Speed Doubler 8.0 and Flash Player 5. (Unfortunately some of the Flash Enabled website I went to did not work, but some of them did. It is probably the best I can expect from a product that is three versions back.) I plan to post some further questions in the near future, but for now I am just pleased I was able to get those items working. Thanks for you help, Matt
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #12 on: June 10, 2006, 06:29
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Glad to see that all is working now.
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Heironimus
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8 MB Posts: 9
Reply #13 on: June 13, 2006, 05:03
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I wanted to add a note to clarify something in my last post just in case someone has the same problem I had with Stuffit Expander not expanding *.sit files correctly. When I re-installed Stuffit Expander the first time (Jun 07, 2006), I deleted the Stuffit Expander folder off of my hard drive before I did the install. The second time I re-installed it, I left the directory there. I don’t know if that made any difference or if it was just a coincidence, but I wanted to let people know just in case.
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Ssmikulas
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4 MB Posts: 4
Reply #14 on: July 10, 2006, 03:03
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Hi, Stuff-it 5.5 on Mac has 3 parts = StuffIt Engine™,StuffIt Engine™ PowerPlug (these 2 must be in 'Extensions'), the 3rd part, StuffIt Expander, can be anywhere (preferably on Desktop), where you can drop Items on it. If you didn't get rid of all the parts before reinstalling it (and it looks like you were missing 1 of those 2 in the Extensions Folder), then you were not installing all the parts you needed back... Anyway, I'm glad you did get it working now.
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