For some reason, Stuffit Expander is broken on my iBook. Perhaps it is complaining that I didn't take it on holiday. This means I can't install or upgrade any programs. Why doesn't Apple bundle file decompression into the core, anyway? Looks like I'm going to have to backup and then reinstall Jagwyre...
Re:You can get it from aladdin...
acme on 2003-01-07T07:25:58
Yup, tried that. The latest version won't run either. No error message or anything, I get the opening window animation and then nothing:-( Re:You can get it from aladdin...
Elian on 2003-01-07T10:44:33
You could open the Console app to see if anything's going on, but here's an easier trick.
Open up a Terminal window, and cd to wherever the installer is. (Probably ~/Desktop) Then find the executable inside the.app bundle and fire it off by hand. If the app was named Foo, then the real executable would be in Foo.app/Contents/MacOS/Foo. When you do that, things will still work graphically as they should, but any messages will go to the terminal and you may at least have a chance to figure out what's going on.
Note that you do need the path relative to the top of the app bundle to make this work--you can't be cd'd into the bundle, nor can you put directories in your PATH, as then Cocoa/Carbon can't find the resources they need and things just fail.
Re:James is my saviour!
pudge on 2003-01-08T18:10:41
Was it your own personal user's preferences, or systemwide?
One trick I've been doing lately is using a completely pristine user account to check problems. So if Stuffit Expander won't work for me, then I try using it from a new user account and see if it works there.Re:James is my saviour!
acme on 2003-01-08T19:45:08
The problem was in my own personal user preferences. It's still annoying - if the plist is corrupt then tell me about it, rather than die mysteriously;-)
