

#Stuffit deluxe windows archive#
Drag the files you want to archive from the Folder Contents panel into the new archive window. Use the Folders button in the StuffIt Deluxe toolbar (as described above) to bring up the Folders tree and navigate to the folder that contains the files you want to archive. Click the New Archive button in the Toolbar. To create a new archive in ArchiveView: 1. This is the best method if you need to add multiple files from various locations to the archive you are creating. Creating a New Archive in ArchiveView: For more complex compression tasks you can create a new archive using the archive viewer. For more information on Drag and Drop, please view the Drag and Drop topic.
#Stuffit deluxe windows zip#
You can then select and drag the files from the Folder Contents panel to either the Zip or StuffIt X Drop Area. This allows you to navigate to the folder that contains the files you want to archive. This will bring up the Folders panel in the left window pane of the StuffIt Deluxe window, and the Folder Contents panel in the bottom pane. To make it easier to find the files and folders you want to compress, you can click the Folders button (also located in the StuffIt Deluxe toolbar).
#Stuffit deluxe windows windows#
You can drag any file or folder, from any Windows Explorer window, into the top left area to make a Zip archive, or into the top right area to make a StuffIt X archive.

This will bring up 4 Drag and Drop squares. You can click the Drop Areas button (located in the toolbar at the top of the StuffIt Deluxe application window). You can either choose to create the archive in the same folder as the items you are archiving (click "Same As Original"), or you can browse for a new location (click "Browse").Ģ IN THE STUFFIT APPLICATION: Drag and Drop: This is yet another very easy way of creating an archive. The first time you create an archive using the StuffIt Context Menu, the Tutorial Dialog will prompt you to choose a location in which to save the new archive. This Archive sub-menu allows many compression choices.

You can also quickly compress using a different archive format by choosing any of the options in the Archive menu (which is a sub-menu of the StuffIt menu). The default can be Zip, StuffIt X or StuffIt. You can change the default format used by the "Compress" command by launching StuffIt Deluxe, going to the Edit menu, choosing Application Options, and then choosing "Context Menu" from the list in the left side window pane. When using the StuffIt Context Menu, by default the "Compress" command will compress the items you have selected into a Zip archive. Choose "Compress" from the StuffIt menu to quickly combine the files and folders you have selected into an archive. You can select files, folders, or any combination of the two. IN A WINDOWS EXPLORER FOLDER: StuffIt Context Menu (right-click): When you right-click files or folders, the StuffIt menu in the Windows contextual menu provides a fast and easy way to combine and compress those selected items into an archive. CREATING ARCHIVES (COMPRESSED FILES) The StuffIt application provides several ways to create archives. Prompts you to select an archive to be opened in the StuffIt application. This Wizard walks you through the creation of a new archive and then walks you though the process of sending that archive via. This Wizard walks you through the creation of a new archive and then walks you through the process of uploading that archive to an FTP server. The New Archive Wizard button will bring you to a Wizard style dialog that walks you through the process of creating a new archive. The Start Page is a convenient place from which to access all of StuffIt's most useful features. THE STUFFIT START PAGE The first time you launch the StuffIt application the first window that will be opened is the StuffIt Start Page. The benefit of using the New Archive Wizard is that it provides a way to access some of the more powerful archiving features offered by StuffIt from within a simple step-by-step interface. 1 USING STUFFIT DELUXE StuffIt Deluxe provides many ways for you to create zipped file or archives.
