On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 09:04 AM, Troy Mello wrote: > It seems PhotoStudio is THE program that I am to use to operate the > scanner. I am using a new iMac with OS X 10.2.3. When I click the > button to scan a picture, I get an error message that says I must > install the Stuffit Expander first and I should visit www.stuffit.com > first to do so.
It sounds to me like you're clicking on a StuffIt archive of the program instead of the program. Some programs are distributed as StuffIt archives to save space on the distribution CD and to combine the many files they need into one small package. To use the program, you need to expand the archive. > A few days ago, I downloaded the free DropStuff application via the > dot-Mac member page. This download came from www.stuffit.com. Why > would this have anything to do with my scanner? DropStuff is a program to create StuffIt archives. StuffIt Expander expands the archives. Since the StuffIt format is the de facto archiving format for the Mac, you really should have StuffIt Expander on your machine. It's free and doesn't take up much space. It can also decompress many of the Unix and Windows compression formats. The strategy of most of these compression companies is to make people pay for the compression software while they give away the expansion software. DropStuff is not free; it has a $30 registration fee. StuffIt Expander is on the CD you get with any Mac. A newer version was released a few months ago that recognizes a newer StuffIt compression format as well as the older one. You may have to download the newer version. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
