Expansion Tab

The Expansion tab contains settings that apply when you expand archives and encoded files.

Create Surrounding folder: This option is used to determine whether files being expanded from an archive should be placed in a newly created folder. The following options are available:

• Always; the surrounding folder is always created.

• Never; the surrounding folder is not created.

• When Archive contains multiple items; a folder will be created only when the archive being expanded contains multiple items.

Further Expansion

Continue to Expand when the result is a Single File: This option is designed to allow the StuffIt application to automatically expand a zip file that has been .uu encoded. When this option is checked, when StuffIt expands and archive or encoded file, and finds that the result is a single file, it will automatically check to see if that single file can be further expanded.

Delete Intermediate files that have been further expanded: When this option is set, the StuffIt application will automatically delete the intermediate file created in the example above. For example, if StuffIt expands a UUcode file which contains a zip archive, and then goes on to expand the zip archive, the zip archive will be deleted when its contents have been successfully extracted.

Delete original file after successful expansion: When this option is set, StuffIt will automatically delete expanded archives and encoded files.

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