Excuse my lack of knowledge I am usually pretty good at figuiring things out. Well a book would be great but since I don't have a book yet and my main interest is not so much to surf the web but be able to get software -games, audio etc for my Mac's on line...
I just want to use the Quadra for audio and video and the 7600 for my son and his games. I also have a Performa 631cd and Peforma 7115cd (Ithink that what it is). I got these all for free so it is more of an experiment and an introduction to MAC. I am thinking of my next computer being a Mac so I wanted to get my feet wet?
I use a ton of different platforms and have books on all of them. I've been using Macs since the 80's and have a ton of books like the one I suggested.
My suggestion is to avoid having to work hard at this stuff and instead work smartly with it.
I have cable and a PC but the files won't open when I try to open them on my Mac's when I download them via my PC. A way to do that would be even better if someone could suggest a easy simple way to do that. That is how I got started in this whole situation in the first place. I have Stuffit for opening Mac compressed files but it won't open them or should I say unstuff them.
From what I've read, someone pointed out the issue for you already.
Mac browsers have a list of what applications go with what file extensions... and in this case, they would link
.sit files with
StuffIt Expander by adding that information to the resource fork of the file being downloaded. PCs don't use resource forks, they get all their information from file extensions, so the downloaded files on your PC don't have what is needed for StuffIt to recognize them as StuffIt archive files.
Mac is a
drag-n-drop world. If you drag the downloaded files onto your Mac (to any place but the desktop), then after they've been copied over drag-n-drop them
onto the application icon for
StuffIt Expander, they should open for you.
The only thing that might stop this is if your PC or ISP thinks they are some type of image file and are using some additional compression to make your internet seem faster. Stuff like that would destroy the downloaded file before you even got it downloaded. The best way to make sure it isn't happening is to check the file size of the downloaded file against the size reported by the web site you get it from.
Again, I strongly suggest that you get a book... they aren't that expensive anymore.
If this were 1998, sure, you could wing it. There would be hundreds of thousands of Mac users all using the same or nearly the same OS as you, so information would be easy to come by. But this is 2008, and most of the people who were power users of this stuff back then have replaced the knowledge they had with the new knowledge they need for today.
I happen to still use this stuff, but I've also found that (in my area) I'm one of the last Mac consultants/service people who works with older Apple stuff (a couple weeks ago I had one client's MacBook disassembled next to another's Macintosh IIci).
All I'm saying is that you should turn your disadvantages into advantages... It is 2008 rather than 1998, so even though you don't have a massive community to help you, you can also get tons of software and books for next to nothing.
When life gives you old apples, you've got to distill them into some powerful apple-cider! It is all in how you look at this stuff.
