Sunday, December 8, 2002

A few tips for dealing with broken Installer VISE installers, which I discovered this weekend while upgrading my PowerBook to Jaguar: Does the installer require you to authenticate? Delete the contents of /var/root/.Trash to reclaim space on your hard drive after the installer has finished. Installer VISE correctly moves files to the Trash instead of deleting them outright, but unfortunately it's root's Trash. My PowerBook had 85 MB of files in there, primarily old copies of Office X components. Does the installer quit all open applications for you? The FaxSTF 10.0.8 and Office X 10.1.2 updaters want to, but there's no point doing so under OS X, as you can relaunch applications as the installer is working and create the same problems that this action is designed to work around. Instead of clicking Install, open Script Editor and type this script: tell application "Office X 10.1.2 Update" to DoAutoInstall Replace "Office X 10.1.2 Update" with the name of the broken installer. Then click Run, and the installer will execute without quitting any applications. Make sure you quit the applications you're upgrading, however. [This tip courtesy Rosyna]. 5:32:27 PM | reply []