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From: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit 1.31
Summary: Possible major problem with StuffIt 1.31
Message-ID: <406@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 04:13:58 GMT
References: <10319@ufcsv.cis.ufl.EDU> <2689@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
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This is directed to Ray Lau and also any users of his excellent StuffIt
program.  I am passing this info on without having tested the potential
problem myself.  I thought the possibility of serious damage was great enough
to warrant this.  I hope the problem is found to be (in actuality)
non-existant....

The following was posted on EchoMac:


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From:    Bruce Long 
To:      All                       Msg #325, 23-Jan-88 10:19am
Subject: Red Alert

Over the past few weeks I have experienced several HD crashes. The
prelude was generally the same:  Some folders would suddenly be
unopenable, or some of the files in those folders would be missing.
The quirky folders could not be trashed or deleted by any file
utilities.

I have spent the past week trying to pinpoint the cause of the problem
and am now totally convinced that the culprit is  Stuffit 1.30 and
1.31.  I am using a Mac Plus and my HD is a Photon 30 from Warp 9.
The problem was appearing no matter what System/Finder  I was using.
I suggest anyone on a HD  return to using Stuffit 1.20. In my tests I
was able to quickly duplicate the problem an a newly initialized HD
using Stuffit 1.31, but not 1.20.  However, this problem did occur
once before, prior to the release of 1.30/1.31, so I plan to  use only
a floppy-driven system while using Stuffit from now on, and I will
only stuff/unstuff onto floppies or a ram disk.  Hopefully I have seen
the last of this problem.

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Again, I do not wish to malign StuffIt in any way, but _if_ this problem is
real, users should know about it immediately.

Jim   -->  USENET  macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)

The above is merely my opinion and must not be construed as anything else!