Working with Stuffit Expander Preferences

You can change the behavior of StuffIt Expander using the StuffIt Expander Preferences dialog. To open StuffIt Expander Preferences, choose Preferences from the "StuffIt Expander" menu. You can set where StuffIt Expander will save files extracted files are extracted.

Expander Preferences

• Expand archives to:
  • Same as source: When this option is selected, files will be saved to the same location as the archive, compressed file, or encoded file from which they were expanded. This is the default setting.
  • Ask: When this option is selected, StuffIt Expander will prompt you to specify a location to which files should be expanded.
  • Specify location...: Use this option to set a specific location to be used every time StuffIt Expander saves a file.
• Mount disk images: When this setting is enabled, StuffIt Expander will attempt to mount disk image files (resulting in the appearance of a "virtual disk"). Apple's DiskImageMounter Utility is used to mount the images.
• Reveal in Finder: When this option is enabled the Expander will open the Finder window to reveal the expanded files.
• Move archives to Trash after expanding: When enabled, the archives you expand will be discarded once the files they contain are successfully expanded.

Notifications:

• Notify with Growl when complete: If you have Growl installed, notifications will be passed to the Growl notification system automatically.
• Use Email: When this option is enabled, you will be prompted to enter an email address. When the operation completes, a notification email message will be sent (via OS X's built in sendmail function) to the specified address.

  Note: if no network connection is available, sendmail will "swallow" the outgoing message.

General Preferences

• Keep a daily usage log: When this option is enabled, Expander will log all its activities to ~/Library/Logs/StuffIt Expander. You can click the "Show Logs" button to quickly jump to that folder.
• Automatically check for updates: StuffIt Expander uses Sparkle for version checking and self-updating. If there is a new version of Expander available, you will receive an alert. You can choose one of the following options:
  • Install Update : Downloads the new version, quits Expander, and installs the new version in its place
  • Remind Me Later : Dismisses the dialog, but it reappears the next time you launch Expander
• Skip This Version : Dismisses the dialog and prevents it from reappearing until the next revision is available.

Advanced Preferences