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January 11, 2005

Stuffit Expander Takes a Long Time to Start

I have noticed that over the last couple of days Stuffit Expander takes a VERY long time to start. After a bit of searching on the Internet I found this article on the MacFixIt site. The error occurs because the developer Aladdin has been taken over by Allume and the domain name of the servers has changed. On start up all their applications check for updates but timeout because of the server name change. To fix this you can run the following command from the Terminal application, which will stop version checking:

defaults write com.stuffit.Expander allowVersionChecking -bool NO

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Posted by Egon Kuster at January 11, 2005 11:17 AM


	« SD and USB Memory Card In One \| Main Blog Page \| Mac Frenzy » January 11, 2005 Stuffit Expander Takes a Long Time to Start I have noticed that over the last couple of days Stuffit Expander takes a VERY long time to start. After a bit of searching on the Internet I found this article on the MacFixIt site. The error occurs because the developer Aladdin has been taken over by Allume and the domain name of the servers has changed. On start up all their applications check for updates but timeout because of the server name change. To fix this you can run the following command from the Terminal application, which will stop version checking: defaults write com.stuffit.Expander allowVersionChecking -bool NO Links MacFixIt Article Posted by Egon Kuster at January 11, 2005 11:17 AM