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It Would Bounce, But Never Open...Why God, WHY? |
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 Well due to the lack of updates lately, I thought I would post another article today. This one comes from a personal experience, One that I originally talked about in our forums. I was having trouble with applications not opening properly. What would happen is, when I would double-click on a file that was associated with an application, the corresponding application would start to bounce in the dock, and then stop, with no warning, no errors, nothing. It just wouldn't open. But if I opened that application first, and then double-clicked on the file, everything would work just as it should. The same thing would happen if I right-clicked on the file, and chose 'Save as...', and also if I clicked System Preferences from the Apple menu, the same thing would happen there.
It was very annoying, and had me stumped for a couple days. I had tried all kinds of stuff; I repaired permissions, I ran the pre-binding feature of Cocktail, I did a global permissions hack, etc., and I was about to run a clean install of OS X when I noticed something small.
You see, I have 2 hard drives in my G4. One with 10.2.8, and one with 10.3. I never use 10.3 - it's only installed because I wanted to check it out so bad. but I found that when I right-click on a file, and go to 'Save as..." the default application it was looking for was the application on the 10.3 hard drive, and I am assuming because those app's were a higher version.
So, since I don't use 10.3, I erased that hard drive, restarted, and it has worked fine ever since.
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September 24 2003, 11:59 AM EDT, by
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| Me |
9/24/03, 1:50 PM EDT |
LOL....thats what you get for using 10.3 when you're not supposed..... *OUCH*...*/hit by flying brick
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| homestar |
9/24/03, 2:07 PM EDT |
wighhhhht, discount bwiiiick
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| Gollum |
9/25/03, 3:49 AM EDT |
Don't you mean "Open with..." rather than "Save as..." ?
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| Jonathan |
9/25/03, 2:40 PM EDT |
Oh [doodoo]... yea .. mine at home was doin that cause I installed 10.3 found it to be a little too buggy then went back to 10.2 and did a preserve users/network settings .. the os kept trying to open stuff with the 10.3 apps and not the 10.2 apps.. duh i shoulda knew that one :P
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| iKen |
9/26/03, 1:42 AM EDT |
oops... yeah, that's what I meant Gollum. :)
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