Hi

I have downloaded an application file for Mac. - It's name ends in .bin
When I try to open it / unstuffit it in OS9 It opens Limewire and nothing happens??
When I open it in OSX - It opens Toast and asks do I want to make a copy?
What is this all about? Do I have real access to this 312Mb file as a normal xpandable / Useable document??

Any help appreciated!

Thanks

Chamol

In OS9, upgrade stuffit, then try a drag and drop rather than a double-click or Launch. If OS9 truncated the file name, you may need to retype the extension.

On OSX, click once on the file and Get Info to see the Open With options. THe file would fire up LimeWire if the Finder has the Open With setting wrong or you don't have the right app to open those files.

If it's a toast disk image, see if the toast menus allow you to mount it as a disk on the desktop (rather than make a copy).

Thanks for this Steif
I shall try what you suggest.

Chamol

I too have a similar probelm opening things with the suffix .sit.bin automatically limewire opens. when i drag and drop onto stuffit - a fairly new version, it tells me that "there is nothing suppressed or encoded, perhaps limewire could help open the document". any suggestions? i am trying to upgrade my OS and the version offered on apple.com is corrupted so i need another source.
thanks for any help!
-robin

Hi penant

Are you starting the OS 9.1 update from this page? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75288

The note says that cookies must be enabled on your browser and that you have to agree to an export license. Sounds like a couple of steps that could cause a problem, so clear your browser and cookie cache (Internet Explorer?) first. The update is big (71 MB), so over a slow connection you can get corruptions, but I just tried it and it verified properly.

thanks steif,
i get a message about half way through installation process saying that there is a porblem withthe installation tome (whatever the heck that is! lol) i have explorer and a DSL connection so it downloads fast and fine and i go through all the acceptance steps ect. but as it is downloading.... there the problem lies i guess.
thanks again!
-penant

Hmm--here's a couple more suggestions (I'm assuming you cleared the Internet Explorer's cache and trashed any partially downloaded copies first):

-See if you are using the latest version you can of Carbon Library and Disk Copy, since it should be the application that can mount the .img file.

In case stuffit is trying to mount the disk image (rather than Disk Copy), go into the stuffit preferences and uncheck the "mount images" parts (.img extensions). That should stop stuffit trying to get involved in the mounting part (you only want stuffit to handle the .bin--binary--part.