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Stuffit Expander review

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Manufacturer: SmithMicro

Our Rating: We rate this 3.5 out of 5

By | 28 November 08

Stuffit Expander is a free extraction tool that remains a useful application to have on your machine.

Stuffit Expander is a free extraction tool that remains a useful application to have on your machine.

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Not least because Stuffit Expander is the only tool that can reliably extract all Stuffit archive formats and Binhex files. In addition it can handle a long list of other archive formats, including all of those mentioned so far.

You don't get to survive as long as Stuffit Expander without picking up a few tricks along the way either.

Stuffit Expander itself has a surprisingly spritely looking drag-and-drop front end, with built-in disk image mounting, virus scanning and the ability to map different file types to different archiving applications.

Very generous. You can also set archives to extract to user-defined folders in preference to the default - which is the same place as the original archive.

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  • Overall: We give this item 7 of 10 overall

SmithMicro, the makers of Stuffit, don’t give away the Expander free for ideological reasons. They give it away to enhance the value of their commercial products. It’s a savvy move and one that’s worked for many years. If you have one extraction tool on your machine, it might as well be Stuffit Expander – it handles most archive formats, looks great and works unobtrusively.

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