I have been using StuffIT Expander, the free un-archiver on my Intel iMac. For some unexplained reason I wasn't completely happy with it. After searching around for a little bit I came across The Unarchiver which I tried and liked it. I decided to remove StuffIT Expander for now and give The Unarchiver a longer term trial run (it's freeware.)

You won't believe the horrible manual uninstall necessary to remove StuffIT Expander from your system. The developers of this application should be shot for not including an uninstall option to remove all of this little bits and pieces which they twaddle all over my system!

Here are the uninstall instructions straight from their website:

Note: for all paths given, we assume "Macintosh HD" is the name of your startup (boot) drive and "[username]" is your Mac OS X login name. Please substitute whatever names you are using in your given situation.
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1 - To manually remove StuffIt first quit out of any open StuffIt applications.

2 - Then delete your StuffIt Application folder. The path is typically similar to:

"Macintosh HD:Applications:StuffIt Deluxe 7.0.x"
"Macintosh HD:Applications:StuffIt Deluxe 8.0.x"
"Macintosh HD:Applications:StuffIt Deluxe 9.0."
"Macintosh HD:Applications:StuffIt Standard 7.0.x"
"Macintosh HD:Applications:StuffIt Standard 8.0.x"
"Macintosh HD:Applications:StuffIt Standard 9.0"


3 - Then delete any of the following files or folders you find in the main Library folder on your boot drive:

"Macintosh HD:Library:Application Support:StuffItCM DropBoxes:" folder
"Macintosh HD:Library:Stuffit Menu Preferences" file
"Macintosh HD:Library:StuffitCM Dropboxes" folder
"Macintosh HD:Library:CFMSupport:StuffItEngineShell.cfm" file
"Macintosh HD:Library:Contextual Menu Items:StuffItCM.plugin" file
"Macintosh HD:Library:Frameworks:Stuffit.framework" folder
"Macintosh HD:Library:InputManagers:MagicMenuEnabler" folder


"Macintosh HD:Library:PreferencesPanes:StuffIt AVR.prefPane" file
"Macintosh HD:Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.Deluxe.plist" file
"Macintosh HD:Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.DropStuff.plist" file
"Macintosh HD:Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.DropTar.plist" file
"Macintosh HD:Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.DropZip.plist" file
"Macintosh HD:Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.Engine.plist" file
"Macintosh HD:Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.ExpressPE.plist" file


4 - Next, delete any of the following files or folders you find in your User folder:

"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Application Support:StuffItCM DropBoxes:" folder
"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Caches:Archive Assitant Helper:" folder
"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Logs:Archive Assitant.log" file


5 - Next, delete any of the following files or folders you find in the Preferences folder in your User folder:

"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Preferences:Aladdin" folder
(NOTE: If you have other Aladdin/Allume products installed, you should leave this folder, but open it up and delete any "StuffIt" items from inside it)

"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Preferences:Allume" (NOTE: If you have other Aladdin/Allume products installed, you should leave this folder, but open it up and delete any "StuffIt" items from inside it)

"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Preferences:Allume:StuffIt Deluxe Recent Items" folder
"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Preferences:ByHost:com.stuffit.Deluxe.*" files
"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.Deluxe.plist" file
"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.DropStuff.plist" file
"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.DropTar.plist" file
"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.DropZip.plist" file
"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.Engine.plist" file
"Macintosh HD:Users: [username] :Library:Preferences:com.stuffit.ExpressPE.plist" file

* If there are multiple user accounts on this machine, login to each account and repeat steps 4 and 5 for each account.

* If you have StuffIt Deluxe do the following additional steps:

1 - Remove StuffIt's background apps from the startup list:
In Mac OS 10.2 and earlier, go to System Preferences->Login Items, in Mac OS 10.3 go to Accounts->Startup Items. Delete the following from the list:
MagicMenu, StuffItAVRDaemon and Archive Assistant Scheduler.

2 - Remove the StuffIt Command Line tools:
Open the "Terminal" application located in the "Utilities" folder, which is inside your "Applications" folder.
At the user prompt type "sudo rm /usr/local/bin/*stuff"
Enter your Administrator password when prompted.

Your Comments appreciated.

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