What I didn't like was the fact that when it processed the audio files (some mp3 and wma files) within that archive the application was stuck and it did its job very slow. It did its job pretty well, using the same amount of full idle resources as the compression part. I tried to decompress the huge archive that was the result of the stress test. This version gets close to The Unarchiver from the performance point of view. The users of the old version know that even when decompressing a small file, it takes too much time while the application loads itself. The latest version of StuffIt Expander has a better startup speed. The StuffIt Standard contains StuffIt Expander, an application that decompresses multiple archive types. Quite good for a archiver that's considered to be average. The output was a little bigger, but with the error recovery capabilities and strong encryption at the same time. The second stress test was with the same folder, but this time by using a strong Blowfish 448-bit encryption, using its encoding capabilities, and 6% error correction level. I could use this Mac without any trouble while the archiving program took all the available CPU time. Another thing that I liked was the fact that it uses the idle resources of the CPU. The CPU usage was 100% on both of the cores, so no processing time was wasted in the whole action. This is one of the applications that has the full support for dual-core machines. What I like about this software is the fact that it uses all the resources while archiving. The archive was smaller than the output archive from 7zX, a free archiving program that I tested couple of days ago. I tried the 'Better Compression' profile. The second time I tried this stress test, it managed to output the archive file without any trouble. I couldn't localize the reason for this behavior. I have tried the same action several times after this, but it didn't crash again. The first time I tried it the application crashed completely. It has within 2.33 GB of all kind of files, including archives, documents, text files, image files and media files (videos and audio files). I provided the program my 'test_files' folder, something that I personally call a 'Stress Test' for the archiving programs. Since there are free tools that have the support for TAR and ZIP, I've tried the SITX archiving engine. It really looks like the previous version with bug fixes. I really believe the people who said that this program has old code within it, were right. The interface looks exactly like the previous version. Since I have read many discussions on forums about this program, I was curios about how this new version actually acts. StuffIt Standard is an archive-building program that supports various archive types.īesides the TAR and the ZIP support, the program has the support for its own proprietary formats, SIT/SITX.
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