Stuffit Deluxe 8.0

by Smith Micro Software Inc.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008DHX6
• Item model number: WSD8BX
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 29, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,200 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

StuffIt Deluxe 8.0 makes it fast and easy to exchange files over any network, especially the internet. Utilizing maximum compression capabilities, strong 512-bit encryption, and data integrity protection, StuffIt makes your Internet communications fast, safe, and secure. Compress and mail from Word, Excel, Outlook, or PowerPoint. Exchange files with anyone, anywhere, on any platform. Automate everyday tasks like data backups. Create self-extracting archives that open automatically, and easily find compressed files without expanding your archive. StuffIt Deluxe 8.0 does this and much more, making it the easiest and most efficient way to compress your files.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Buggy Support of Many File Types, July 28, 2003

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The Alchemist "alchemista" (Orlando, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stuffit Deluxe 8.0 (CD-ROM)

Stuffit Deluxe 8.0 (as well as 7.5) sounds good by its feature list, but is a very bad implementation of the compression/decompression formats. It supports almost any compression type you can imagine, as well as adding its own compression format, however the support is very buggy.

The main problems with this are speed and errors. First, this product is at least 10 times slower than the command-line based extraction tools, and at least 5 times slower than any other graphical archiving tool I've used.

Second, there are many errors in this product. For example, I've had several zip files and rar files fail to decompress. The product reports an error about the file format being wrong, or it causes an error that the filename is too long. This is very bad, and it is not the file that is wrong, it is Stuffit. If you use any other archiving tool, the file decompresses fine (and much faster!).

The only reason I give this 2 stars is because it does support a wide variety of formats. However, I'd highly recommend any other products instead of this one. You can even find free archive software for most of these formats.