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If a SIT file is not opened in a Mac OS application and you instead get a 'There is no application set to open the file' error message you can click on 'Search App Store' in the error dialog and Mac OS will show you applications compatible with SIT file.

Find a SIT file in question in Mac OS Finder and double click on it to launch the corresponding application.

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Install the application you found and check if it can open SIT file.If you don't know the application which function as SIT file opener then try to search for 'SIT wiki', 'application to open SIT file' or 'open SIT file' queries in the search engine you like.If you know the application which can open SIT file then run it and see if there is a File->Open main menu option in the application.If a SIT file is not opened in an application and you instead get a 'Windows can't open a file' error message you should try looking for an application which can open the file in question.Find a SIT file in question in Windows OS File Explorer and double click on it to launch the corresponding application.Archives created using the latest StuffIt X compression use the File extension SITX file extension. You can open SIT files using Smith Micro StuffIt or StuffIt Expander on the Mac and Windows platforms.

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However, they could potentially contain malware, so should not be opened, particularly if they are from an unknown source, without checking the archive with an up to date virus scanner. SIT files can contain data of any kind, though are conventionally used for backup purposes, or to package files such as applications for distribution over the Internet. However, it is possible that the files contained with StuffIt archives contain characters in their names which are fine on the Mac but illegal in Windows, and this may prevent the file being extracted correctly on the latter platform. Though files on the Mac platform did not require file extensions, StuffIt archives used the SIT file extension so that archives could be stored on other platforms such as Windows and Linux. Though StuffIt was available as shareware or paid software, in order to make SIT files more widely compatible, a freeware decompression application called StuffIt Expander was released during the 1990's and has since become preloaded as part of the Mac operating system.

StuffIt was originally developed by Raymond Lau in 1987 to provide a one-step process for archiving and compressing files on Mac, and also offered an improved compression ratio over alternative utilities at the time. Though very uncommon, the SIT file extension may also be used to denote a Sinclair emulator snapshot, or PDP-10 Fortran-77 compiler source code file. SIT files were originally used exclusively on the Apple platform, though Smith Micro StuffIt is now also available on the Windows platform. SIT files are similar to ZIP or RAR files in that they contain complete file and folder structures in a single, compressed archive. SIT file extension is most commonly associated with a StuffIt archive file.

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