Applications "broken" by Mac OS X 10.3

[Boutsik]

Ever since i updated to 10.3.3 Mail refuses to follow the rules in preferences and move mail to my selected folders. It instead just lets them all sit in the main window...even when I click APPLY RULES.
What to do??

[anthlover]

Move or Delete mail.plist and recreate prefs.

Someone else might have a better answer.

[ruben_mera]

http://www.r1ch.net/projects/bitchbot/

This is a perl IRC bot that I used frequently on jaguar, and now after a clean panther install it doesnt work properly.

Problem: It works perfectly at first but after 1 min it quits without any reason for doing so.

[Sumleilmus]

In Panther, /Library/Scripts/Finder Scripts/Trim Folder Names.scpt is kaput!

When one opens it using Script Editor [(2.0, v43), AppleScript 1.93] one can read the following text as part of the "comment" introductory to the compiled script:

-- The following line is disabled due to a Menu Manager bug
--set the source_folder to (choose folder with prompt "Pick the folder containing the folders to rename:")

When I enable that line, the script at least starts about its work by asking me to pick the folder, &c., but still ends up doing nothing.

I use this script more than a lot of others. Does anyone know a workaround for this?

I seem to have the latest version of Developer Tools and XCode Tools, not that I know how to use them, but Apple's site has various touts for "new, improved" AppleScript that prompted me to make sure they were up to date.

Any suggestions?

[stetner]

Well, it says it is disabled due to a bug, so don't expect it to work.

-- The following line is disabled due to a Menu Manager bug
-- set the source_folder to (choose folder with prompt "Pick the folder containing the folders to rename:")

try
	tell application "Finder" to set the source_folder to (folder of the front window) as alias
on error -- no open folder windows
	set the source_folder to path to desktop folder as alias
end try

The script should default to the Desktop Folder if it cannot use the 'source_folder'.

But if you pick a folder in the finder, and run the script from the applescript menu it works. Note that you must have the parent folder selected to change a directory...

[Sumleilmus]

Thanks for the reply. I tried the script under lots of conditions, but always with the target folder(s) selected and in the frontmost finder window, and with the parent folder selected as well.

I checked the script by reactivating the disabled lines because I was unsure whether or when the cited Menu Manager conflict might have been resolved, and didn't know if an OS update that addressed that issue would necessarily reactivate the script.

I've never run the script in any other manner than from the AppleScript menu, and it has never worked (under Panther). So, I don't quite follow your meaning when you say "it works."

When I run it, it asks me for the text to trim, it asks me do I wish the beginning or the end of the name trimmed, and then when I run it it returns an error and does not alter the name of the folder.

Unsure of your meaning, I even tried moving the folder to the desktop folder and running the script. It still returned an error.

?????

[stetner]

Ok, if you have a dir like this:
see Pic1.pdf
and you want to change the 'bb b' and 'cc b' directories, you would select the aaa directory and then fire off the script from the black applescript icon in the menu bar
see Pic2.pdf
Tell it to trim ' b' (space b) from the end and you get this:
see Pic3.pdf

PS. damned if I can get an image (not externally hosted) to show up in a post.... therefore attachments. Rob, or any admin, how about a tutorial?

[Sumleilmus]

The reason I'm asking for help is that it doesn't work on my machine.

Could it be due to the ? character (UNIX really dislikes it)?

Even when I try to trim a gang of sample folders named a 2002, b 2002, &c., it doesn't work. My series shows

1 selected folder in front finder window, with parent selected
2 how I activate the .scpt
3 the dialog box for string entry
4 the result (not shown, as 3 is the max. uploadable, but identical to 1)

Thus, my efforts to overcome and understand.

[stetner]

It appears to me you have the folder 'calvarium & osses > 2002' selected.

If you want that folder to be changed you need to have it's parent folder selected, IE 'wsp2002_n_after' then run the script.

You need to have the folder that contains the files and/or folders you want to change selected.

[Sumleilmus]

Stetner, I appreciate your efforts to help.

When you tell me that the method you describe works for you on your machine, I believe you.

When I tell you that the method that you describe does not work for me on my machine, do you believe me?

I understand the difference between selecting the parent directory/folder (without selecting the directory/folder itself) and selecting the directory/folder itself. I've tried both methods, many times.

What you describe above is the first unsuccessful method of the many I've tried. Since then, and most recently five minutes ago, I tried it again. It did not work. The names of the folders are unchanged.

I would really like to get this to work, because UNIX finds the ? character so distasteful (thus in the Terminal, the directory names are different).

In short, I have a lot of directories that end in " ? 2002" whose names I would like trim. At this point, I should probably try to figure out how to do it in Terminal.

In Terminal, the folder "calvarium & osses ? 2002" appears as a directory named "calvarium & osses ??? 2002"

I'll hunt up the UNIX commands for renaming directories and try to add the (I forget what it's called) -r to make it recursive.

Thanks for your replies.

[Sumleilmus]

Not only UNIX! The character for greater than or equal to, so cheerfully accepted by the GUI side of Panther, Jaguar, Puma, and domestic shorthair, doesn't even appear in my text above. It was changed to ?.

I probably should have put a couple of dabs of html before it to make it look like itself.

[Irene]

which as noted on this forum cannot be adjusted in Panther?

I wondered if over time any of the gurus had achieved a way to make them work.

[yellow]

Quote: Originally Posted by Irene which as noted on this forum cannot be adjusted in Panther? I wondered if over time any of the gurus had achieved a way to make them work.

Yep. iClock rules.

[stetner]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sumleilmus Not only UNIX! The character for greater than or equal to, so cheerfully accepted by the GUI side of Panther, Jaguar, Puma, and domestic shorthair, doesn't even appear in my text above. It was changed to ?.

OK, I thought it might be that the trim script did not like the ? character, but I just created some folders and trimmed '? xxx' off of the end of them with no problem. (where the '?' above and below is really the greater-than-or-equal sign)

$ ls zzz
xxx ??? xxx/

$ ls -b zzz                     
xxx \342\211\245 xxx/

$ find zzz/ -name \*\342\211\245\* -print

$ find zzz/ -name \*\ xxx -print
zzz//xxx ? xxx

So, the greater-than-or-equal sign appears to be the unicode string \342\211\245 but I don't see an easy way to trim it in the terminal, without writing a script to do it.

As an aside, if you create some folders named say:

xxx yyy
www yyy
zzz yyy

(with plain ascii names) and try to trim the ' yyy' off, does that work?

[leehanken]

Quote: Anyone else having trouble with droplets?

I am running OS X 10.3 and get a SIGBUS 10 in a droplet when I execute a 'do shell script ...' even though it succeeds in running the unix commands.

[Duderonomy]

After upgrading from 10.2.8 to 10.3.3, Mail seems to be busted becasue it cannot talk to the Address Book. So really the AB is probably broken... and this is likely due to the old Library contents of my pre-Panther home directory...

[mac_man_luke]

Macam webcam driver no longer works on OSX.3 but there is a cracked version avaliable from Here

The old driver would freeze when ever you tryed to use it.

[mikelly321]

SoundEdit 16. Also seems to be broken by Jaguar. We can't get microphone or Convert CD Audio to work in either OS. Any ideas?

[stoneage]

hmmmm...PTH Pasteboard and PTH Clock seem to working for me. I'm not using iTunesNotifier at present, but that always worked OK. What kind of problems have you seen with these apps?

[emb]

I just upgraded to 10.3.4 and find that SPSS (a statistics program) works very very slowly. It is so slow that I might be able to do things faster with a hand calculator.

Anyway, would a re-install of SPSS help? Can I downgrade to 10.3.3 or earlier? Anything else I might try?

Thanks.