Stuffit Deluxe 8.0

Rating:
Summary: Buggy Support of Many File Types
Review: Stuffit Deluxe 8.0 (as well as 7.5) sounds good by its feature list, but is a very bad implementation of the compression/decompression formats. It supports almost any compression type you can imagine, as well as adding its own compression format, however the support is very buggy.

The main problems with this are speed and errors. First, this product is at least 10 times slower than the command-line based extraction tools, and at least 5 times slower than any other graphical archiving tool I've used.

Second, there are many errors in this product. For example, I've had several zip files and rar files fail to decompress. The product reports an error about the file format being wrong, or it causes an error that the filename is too long. This is very bad, and it is not the file that is wrong, it is Stuffit. If you use any other archiving tool, the file decompresses fine (and much faster!).

The only reason I give this 2 stars is because it does support a wide variety of formats. However, I'd highly recommend any other products instead of this one. You can even find free archive software for most of these formats.