Jeff- i've found you often need to try both very old and more recent version of UnStuffit to get things to unstuffed properly. Creating a fresh disk image and then copying the unstuffed app over usually works with FloppyEmu. You just have to spend a bunch of time trying a few versions till it works. -andy
On Oct 16, 2025, at 10:40 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I have a special request for anyone coming to the swap meet. I need Compact Pro on Floppy Disk for the Mac SE/30 I'm trying to decompress some archives on multiple floppies. I've tried unsuccessfully to get working the copy of Compact Pro from Macintosh Repository, but it won't open with the StuffIt that I also downloaded from there. I tried using Floppy EMU, but it had issues recognizing files. Other ideas, then let me know. Hopefully I will have time on Sunday as I will be quite busy at the swap meet. I've been wanting to recover the files for many years now, but haven't had the time to work on this. I'd love to recover my 30 year old files from Drexel University.
Thanks!
Jeff Brace
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