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You have a Mac. You’ve downloaded a file with an SIT extension. This is an archive, sort of like a ZIP file in Windows. You need to open it with an archive program to extract the file(s) that you want. But when you double click on it, the damn thing opens up in WORD… that is to say, it TRIES to. If you’re like me, you don’t actually have word on your Mac, but you haven’t gotten around to uninstalling the Office:Mac trial version that was stinking up the place like a diseased turd pre-installed when you bought your machine. So in our case, what happens when we double click on the SIT file is we get a splash screen/License agreement for Word, as if we were trying to activate our trial version.

Yeah, THAT’LL happen….

The Problem:
Your Mac tries to open SIT archive files in WORD (of all things!)


The Cause:
Here’s what I assume is going on: The .SIT extension must be some valid file type that Word can open, and since my Mac has Word pre-installed, it assumes that I’m trying to open some weirdo document with a SIT extension rather than an archive.

The Solution:
You need to install the REAL program that you use for SIT files. The first (and only) one that comes to mind is Stuffit Expander. There are probably other archival tools that you could use, but Stuffit is free and it has a good track record, so why not start with this one. Plus, it’s free. Download it (for free!) and install it. Then, right-click on your SIT archive and it should give you the option of opening it with Stuffit.

That is all.

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