From: "Don Singer" <don@singerspdx.com>
Date: September 24, 2007 7:44:36 AM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Quicktime Question
Wow!!!! Thanks for the explanation Milton...I followed most, but not
all:). Loved your RANT....every profession has it's hard points, and
this one seems to be a good one.
Will get it going this week.
Cordially,
Don
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:
Hi Don;
I may have over reacted to that issue, however the initial reports
posted by people on various Mac sites were pretty alarming (i.e. all
Rosetta Apps would not launch after it was installed which is a
catastrophic problem in my books). And since you can't really
uninstall / re-install QuickTime, there is no going back to an
earlier version. And yes, there are procedures to use tools to
extract just the QuickTime 7.1.6 package , however your doing
meatball surgery on OSX to achieve this (dragging some file /
frameworks / components the trash and replacing them with older
files / frameworks / components form previous QuickTime versions) and
if you screw up, you have a non booting system.
It appears to affect only some Mac Intels. On our own Mac x86 boxes I
don't have one case of it happening here and no one els has reported
it either. The issue seems to be a CFM binding and permissions issue
which wreaks havoc on the PowerPC CFM in Rosetta and just re-running
the pre-binding command from the terminal.app has solved it for most
people:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306043
To prevent it you should always quit any open applications, haxies ,
widgets before installing any system installs. As a matter of
prophylactic behavior, I normally run disk first aid to ensure the
boot / OSX partition is healthy and fix all permission errors. Then I
run "MacJanitor" to clean up all the log files, then run "Cache Out
X" to dispose of all cache files, then I manually remove two
"Extensions.xxx" files (which have cached extensions and driver
info), then I re-boot the Mac to ensure nothing is left running and
then I run the updaters. Then I run disk first aid again to fix all
permissions as they are usually broken after each OS X update
(usually iTunes related). Then I repeat this behavior on all my other
Macs and that's pretty well my entire day "shot" to keep my Macs up
to date. And I have various partitions and external hard drives with
different OS X .x variants too.
<RANT_TIME>
As to QuickTime re-installs. Apple does not even provide re-
installers to us Alpha / Beta QuickTime testers to use either. So
before I install a new Alpha version for testing, I boot off another
OS X partition, erase the entire partition that the test OSX system
was installed on, then use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy this booted OSX
install onto the other partition and then boot off the other
partition. After that I install the QuickTime Alpha on the OSX
Partition. And of course, you can't do e-mail or any correspondence
on that Mac while testing because you lose all your changes each time
you do a new "QuickTime Install". So if your wondering why QuickTime
is so buggy, it's because of this draconian idiocy and their
inability to make an uninstaller, so that people can't be bothered to
go through all these steps with all their applications / components
and do day to day testing. And the Windows XP and Vista guys simply
run a System Wide uninstaller to get back to a clean system, where as
Apple won't do that for OS X. They did make an QuickTime uninstaller
script, however Apple states it isn't reliable and could corrupt the
entire OS X system (so it's useless) and still recommend you do the
re-install OS X for each new Alpha. The joys of being a developer..
</RANT_TIME>
Hope That Helps..
Milton J. Aupperle
President
ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting
Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist
#1005 - 815 14th Avenue. S.W.
Calgary Alberta T2R0N5
1-(403)-229-9456
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On 23-Sep-07, at 8:45 AM, Don Singer wrote:
Milton et al:
I will be registering AstroIIDC this week to really put it through
it's paces (have booted it up and that works:). I have read places
that Quicktime 7.2 and AstroIIDC do not dance well.
Well, I have 7.2 installed on my machine, and installed the Quicktime
7.2 Compatability update Apple distributed about 10 days ago.
So, will I have to install an older version of Quicktime and, if so,
where do I get that?
Thanks,
Don