INCOMPATIBLE MENU FILE MAGICMENU MAC OS X
INCOMPATIBLE MENU FILE MAGICMENU UPDATE
INCOMPATIBLE MENU FILE MAGICMENU ARCHIVE

In September 2001, Aladdin released StuffIt 6.5, still without support for long filenames. If that name gets munged, the application likely wonвЂ™t work.

Even if an applicationвЂ™s name is short, an application file in Mac OS X is often actually a package (essentially a special folder), and one of the many files inside it might have a long filename. That might be annoying by itself, but keep in mind that Mac OS X is full of filenames you canвЂ™t normally even see.

Expanding an archive containing long filenames would change those names into something shorter. In the case of StuffIt, the problem was particularly serious, because it turned an archive into a kind of roach motel: long filenames could go in but they couldnвЂ™t come out. Some programs, such as Microsoft Office, couldnвЂ™t (and still canвЂ™t) deal with long filenames even under Mac OS X. But most users didnвЂ™t actually encounter long filenames until Mac OS X, where such names could at last be assigned in the Finder and when saving вЂ“ in appropriately written programs, that is. The restriction on how long the name of a file could be had been lifted from 31 to 255 characters when HFS+ arrived over 4 years ago, and high-level programming APIs to deal with long filenames were provided starting with Mac OS 9. Like so many other early Mac OS X programs, StuffIt at this time had various shortcomings, but the most glaringly obvious was its inability to deal with long filenames. Often IвЂ™d check back on the Web site to find a second version, compressed in some other way вЂ“ as a gzipped disk image to be opened and mounted with Disk Copy, for example вЂ“ because users had found that the StuffIt-compressed version wouldnвЂ™t work for them. But every now and then IвЂ™d download an application, expand it with StuffIt Expander, and find the result unusable. There was just one problem: It didnвЂ™t work. ThatвЂ™s why when Mac OS X came out in March of 2001, I was glad to see a Mac OS X-compatible version of StuffIt Expander included in the Utilities folder. Archive a file or a folder and presto, it takes up less space on your hard disk and less bandwidth when transmitting it over the Internet. If IвЂ™m right, and if youвЂ™ve been a Mac user for any length of time, then of all the good old workhorse utilities you depend on without even thinking, surely AladdinвЂ™s StuffIt is the one you take the most for granted. Perhaps youвЂ™ve never been tight on disk space and perhaps youвЂ™ve always lived in some remote hermitage with no desire to share files with others.

#1613: M2 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, long-awaited features coming to пЈїOS, watchOS 9, TidBITS website changes, tvOS and HomePod update.#1614: 2022 пЈїOS system requirements, WWDC 2022 head-scratcher features, travel tech notes from Canada.#1615: Why Stage Manager needs an M1 iPad, Limit IP Address Tracking problems, Citibank cryptocurrency confusion.#1616: Explaining passkeys, Apple challenges for senior citizens, macOS 11.6.7 Big Sur fixes email attachment bug.#1617: Pages regains mail merge, HomeKit sensor improvements, keyboard flags in Monterey.

INCOMPATIBLE MENU FILE MAGICMENU MAC OS X

INCOMPATIBLE MENU FILE MAGICMENU ARCHIVE

INCOMPATIBLE MENU FILE MAGICMENU UPDATE

Incompatible menu file magicmenu