HOWTO: open DITP on a Mac

2LightYears

Download the newest version of the Stuffit Expander freeware and drag the file onto that program instead of using the OSX Archive Helper.

I know Stuffit isn't anyone's first choice, but I tried four different freeware expansion apps before using stuffit, which I shall now uninstall, having opened my digital download.

MAKE SURE that you drag the .zip onto Stuffit -- if you just double click, ArchiveHelper will just keep giving you new archives alternating .cpgz (the true file format) and .zip.

The problem is that the file isn't really a ZIP file. It's a .CPGZ (Copy In Copy Out file that has been compressed using GZip, and whoever did it wasn't paying attention...

HeavyHands

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2LightYears

CB29798 wrote:

Also, check out this link for Mac support for OS 10.4.X and OS 10.5.X
https://eee.uci.edu/help/zip/how-to/

Apparently you didn't read what I wrote, especially the gripping climax that read:

if you just double click, ArchiveHelper will just keep giving you new archives alternating .cpgz (the true file format) and .zip.

The file isn't really a ZIP file, and if you follow the instructions given on the link you provided, you end up with another archive, then another, then another, ad nauseum.

HeavyHands

2LightYears wrote:

Apparently you didn't read what I wrote, especially the gripping climax that read:

if you just double click, ArchiveHelper will just keep giving you new archives alternating .cpgz (the true file format) and .zip.

The file isn't really a ZIP file, and if you follow the instructions given on the link you provided, you end up with another archive, then another, then another, ad nauseum.

Ok. Honest mistake. I genuinely hope no one was too distressed or confused by my addition (which is now gone). :oops:

But thanks for the sarcasm. That was the best part.

TheDecline13

bring that file to a zipped computer and do it there thats what happened to mine. i downloaded it on my mac kept getting errors put it on windoz and it worked.. hope this helps