Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!mephisto!mcnc!ecsgate!ecsvax!augsec From: augsec@uncecs.edu (Wayne Robarge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Stuffit Deluxe: Off on the wrong foot Message-ID: <1990Oct3.181246.13222@uncecs.edu> Date: 3 Oct 90 18:12:46 GMT References: <1990Oct1.211515.29595@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 47 In article esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) writes: >In article <1990Oct1.211515.29595@rodan.acs.syr.edu> rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes) writes: >>I just received my upgrade copy of Stuffit Deluxe. How quaint! An installer >>program. >>So I tried it. Told it to put the app in a folder within a folder on my >>hard disk. Sat back and watched. After telling me it was installing item #31 >>of 32 it went on to item 4! And back on up until it got to 31, and then 4 >>again... at which point I pushed cancel and found multiple copies of files >>in different folders within my system folder. > >Well at last I know that I'm not alone. I tried it at one in the morning >and went off to the kitchen while the installer was running. Result: one >trashed hard disk after it overwrote the volume information. > >After leaving a few impolite messages with the hapless receptionist at >Aladdin, I finally got a call from the president of the company, assuring >me that it was a media problem with my distribution diskette. When the >second disk did the same thing, I called again. I was assured that it >was a conflict with my inits, but turning them all off only changed the >point at which the installer looped. I was assured that someone from >Aladdin Tech SUpport would call me after everybody got back from MacWorld >in August. I'm still waiting. If Aladdin wants to call me, I'll work with >them. >-- >Elliott Frank ...!{uunet,sun}!amdahl!esf00 (408) 746-6384 > or ....!esf00@amdahl.com > >[the above opinions are strictly mine, if anyone's.] >[the above signature may or may not be repeated, depending upon some >inscrutable property of the mailer-of-the-week.] l I stopped it before it did the whole disk. I now have a folder called Preferences which is a folder within a folder within a folder etc. that is about 3 Megs big. I cannot remove it via the trash can as the Finder runs out of memory. Anyone know of a way to review a folder with lots of other folders inside it? I also got a story about bad media and am promised a replacement. I will not reformat the hard disk until after I try it with the new disk. No sense reformating twice. Wayne Robarge NCSU, Raleigh, NC