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I bought StuffIt Deluxe 3.0 at MacWorld, but I've had a lot of 
problems with SpaceSaver. In an earlier post I talked about crashes 
while After Dark was activated. I wasn't sure what was causing the 
trouble then.

Much more severe, though, is the problem between SS and Retrospect. 
After shrinking a zillion files on my hard disk, I backed them up 
with Retrospect.  They made it onto the tape in the compressed format 
(that's okay), but some were saved with file type 'SPSV' and creator 
'SIT!'.  That's pretty silly, because only a second ago they were 
'TEXT'/'MSWD'.  Then Retrospect tried to verify the files (that 
option was set) and it complained for each one that it was different.  
I checked the file on the hard disk after this, and they also had 
type 'SPSV'/'SIT!' and now had StuffIt icons.  If I clicked on them, 
they would decompress and open up in StuffIt Deluxe, but there was 
nothing in them; an empty window would open.

If I manually changed them back to 'TEXT'/'MSWD' files, they opened 
okay.  Not all of the effected files were text files, by the way, I'm 
just using them as an example.  Some applications were also damaged 
this way.

While doing this, SpaceSaver also crashed Retrospect at some point, 
but this was seemingly random.

It took quite awhile to get all my files back to normal and to remove 
all traces of SS.  I like StuffIt Deluxe and I like the promise of 
SpaceSaver, but it's much too buggy now.  I'm a little peeved because 
one of the Aladdin tech guys at MacWorld told me that they had tried 
SpaceSaver with Retrospect extensively and designed it to work with 
it.

Setup: Mac IIfx, 20 meg RAM, 32-bit mode, System 7.0, tunedup to 
1.1.1, no unusual INITs. 

David Fry                                  fry@math.harvard.EDU
Division of Applied Sciences               fry@huma1.bitnet
Harvard University                      ...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA  02138