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Article #6164Re: StuffIt Deluxe Installer from Hell!
From: Garance Drosehn
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 20:43
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 20:43
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In article <40029@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
> In article <QRP^Y!*@rpi.edu>,
Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) writes...
> >Yes indeed. My theory is that the expert option of the installer
simply
> >gets confused about what it is doing. I ended up installing everything
> >and then deleting the few files I didn't want. I didn't have Stuffit
> >Classic on the drive though (I assume you mean the new 1.6 version, not
> >the earlier 1.5.1 version).
>
> Actually, the greater problem was with the "standard" install option,
which
> is what was so shocking -- this is supposed to be the recommended method.
> However, I ran into 'folders from hell' with the expert install as well.
Hmm. What I said was what I meant, for my case at least. I tried to use
the expert install option first (two times, selecting different pieces),
and ran into different problems each time. I gave up on that and did the
standard install and everything worked fine.
It may be that the scripts I used (back in July or August) were different
than the scripts you have in your current version. While I already had a
"Preferences" folder from other applications, for instance, I did not get
any dialog about it finding the folder. It did put it's own file in that
folder too (when I used the standard option).
Hopefully the scripts in version 2.0 will be better behaved!
Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
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