Not sure why, but last night Stuffit started taking over 2 minutes to start up. When it finally starts, it extracts archive contents as quickly as normal.

First thing I tried was to drag the Stuffit Standard 9.0 folder to the trash, empty it, and reinstall. Same problem.

I then delete the comp.stuffit.*.plist files found in ~/Library/Preferences. Same problem.

I next tried running the Stuffit installation program and selecting Uninstall which gave me options to remove Stuffit and the Framework(whatever it is). I removed both then reinstalled. Same problem.

I then created a new user account. Stuffit exhibits the same problem there, so it's a system wide problem. Interestingly enough, when Safari downloades an archive, it automatically extracts it and does not exhibit the 2+ minute delay. Of course, I normally use Firefox...

I ran Console in /Applications/Utilities and found some odd entries in the system log:

Jan 9 10:32:00 localhost kernel: Couldn't alloc class "com_cisco_driver_vpn"
Jan 9 10:32:00 localhost diskarbitrationd[90]: disk1s2 hfs C569B69A-5E23-3619-A19B-AF6C64F9E2E3 vTunes4 [not mounted]
Jan 9 10:32:01 localhost diskarbitrationd[90]: disk1s2 hfs C569B69A-5E23-3619-A19B-AF6C64F9E2E3 vTunes4 /Volumes/vTunes4
Jan 9 10:39:33 localhost kernel: Couldn't alloc class "com_cisco_driver_vpn"
Jan 9 10:39:33 localhost diskarbitrationd[90]: disk1s2 hfs 52162AD6-E708-3AC2-9BB4-DA0151311142 NeoOfficeJ-1.1_Beta-Patch-4 [not mounted]
Jan 9 10:39:34 localhost diskarbitrationd[90]: disk1s2 hfs 52162AD6-E708-3AC2-9BB4-DA0151311142 NeoOfficeJ-1.1_Beta-Patch-4 /Volumes/NeoOfficeJ-1.1_Beta-Patch-4

The Couldn't alloc class "com_cisco_driver_vpm" message occures about the same time that Stuffit finally starts to run when I unarchived vTunes. That may be a red herring message however as the NeoOffice Patch was a disk image and was mounted immediately, with the same odd entry.

If I force-kill Stuffit before the 2+ minute delay completes, I get an entry in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReport/Stuffit Expander.crash.log(also viewed via Console)

Host Name: DJs-iMac-G5.local
Date/Time: 2005-01-08 22:16:37 -0600
OS Version: 10.3.7 (Build 7S215)
Report Version: 2

Command: StuffIt Expander
Path: /Applications/StuffIt Standard 9.0/StuffIt Expander.app/Contents/MacOS/StuffIt Expander
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 459
Thread: Unknown

Link (dyld) error:

dyld: /Applications/StuffIt Standard 9.0/StuffIt Expander.app/Contents/MacOS/StuffIt Expander can't open library: @executable_path/../Frameworks/StuffIt.framework/Versions/A/StuffIt (No such file or directory, errno = 2)

I've done some googling and while I've seen references to others having a Stuffit launch problem, I haven't turned up a solution. Any ideas?

EDIT - found a work-around, of sorts. I've added Stuffit Expander to my startup items. It still takes the 2 minutes to initially load once logged in, but after that any unarchiving happens w/out delay and Stuffit Expander stays open so that the next extract happens just as quickly(wherease before, each extraction would launch Stuffit with the same 2 minute delay).

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