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Q: application is already running ? (Peak Pro)

Installed Mavericks on new MacBook Pro- and Peak Pro won't run. message says "Another copy of this application is already running on this machine . ." Help

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 1:05 PM

by Flo Doria,Solvedanswer
Flo Doria Flo Doria
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Same problem for me, and peak was to work fine before to update of MAC OS 10.9.

Apple did a mess again, that's it.Capture d’écran 2013-10-30 à 11.23.21.jpg

Posted on Oct 30, 2013 3:25 AM

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  • by sterling r,

    sterling r sterling r Oct 25, 2013 1:53 PM in response to luminousmusic
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    Oct 25, 2013 1:53 PM in response to luminousmusic

    Howdy luminousmusic,

     

    It sounds like you are unable to run an app because a copy of that app is already running.

    Try force quitting the appwith these steps from the article named:

    Mac OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application using Force Quit

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3411

    To force quit an application, choose Force Quit from the Apple menu (or press Command-Option-Esc), then choose the unresponsive application in the Force Quit window, and click Force Quit.

     

    Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.

    Cheers,

    Sterling

  • by luminousmusic,Helpful

    luminousmusic luminousmusic Oct 25, 2013 4:29 PM in response to sterling r
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    Oct 25, 2013 4:29 PM in response to sterling r

    Hi Sterling

     

    Brilliant of you to respond. Thanks. The idea of Force-quit hadn't occurred to me as I simply couldn't get past the warning window ("Another copy of this application is running on this machine. Peak must now quit") to properly open the application. But alas after several repeated attempts this idea has not worked. The app doesn't get past it's opening screen plus warning window.

     

    I'm software savvy but my knowledge of Mac core operations is not all that massive. However, wondering if I might find diagnostic info, I tried to open Peak while watching  Activity Monitor. Somewhere there I found the message "Peak is unimplemented. Quit using it".  I can't get back to this process warning tonight, sorry a bit over my head!

     

    I wiped all traces of Peak and reinstalled it, but it's still not interested in opening up.

     

    All other apps are up and running in OSX, (various audio, quarkxpress, lots of Adobe except for Adobe After Effects. Just one errant app . . . but so essential to my work flow. I wish I knew a work around, but realise I might have to return to Mountain Lion. Oh well.

    Cheers nowJon

  • by MarceloVasco,Helpful

    MarceloVasco MarceloVasco Oct 27, 2013 8:24 PM in response to luminousmusic
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    Oct 27, 2013 8:24 PM in response to luminousmusic

    Hey man! Try to turn off your WIFI and open PEAK PRO Don't ask me why, but I figured out that for some reason when I'm not connected I can run the program without problems hehe Hope it helps! Cheers!!!

  • by Flo Doria,Solvedanswer

    Flo Doria Flo Doria Oct 30, 2013 3:25 AM in response to luminousmusic
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    Oct 30, 2013 3:25 AM in response to luminousmusic

    Same problem for me, and peak was to work fine before to update of MAC OS 10.9.

    Apple did a mess again, that's it.Capture d’écran 2013-10-30 à 11.23.21.jpg

  • by luminousmusic,

    luminousmusic luminousmusic Oct 30, 2013 10:53 AM in response to Flo Doria
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    Oct 30, 2013 10:53 AM in response to Flo Doria

    Yes it's understandably disappointing. I don't know that Maverick OS techs will take much interest in us lowly Peak users.

  • by Mark D Hardy,

    Mark D Hardy Mark D Hardy Nov 20, 2013 3:28 PM in response to MarceloVasco
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    Nov 20, 2013 3:28 PM in response to MarceloVasco

    Thank you, MarceloVasco!  Turning off Wi-Fi enabled me to use Peak LE 5.2.  However did you come up with this solution?

  • by Flo Doria,

    Flo Doria Flo Doria Nov 22, 2013 8:41 AM in response to Mark D Hardy
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    Nov 22, 2013 8:41 AM in response to Mark D Hardy

    I don't know how he did that, because I did a try, with the wifi on or off, it don't work at all lol

  • by oscar1965apple,

    oscar1965apple oscar1965apple Mar 4, 2014 10:23 AM in response to luminousmusic
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    Mar 4, 2014 10:23 AM in response to luminousmusic

    I solved by deleting a file named "database.lock"

    inside folder

    /var/folders/wc/wg2qdxgn0fg0pcp_jk6x6wlc0000gn/T/.AddressBookLocks/

    (the name of the folder below "wc" is problably randomly generated)

     

    I found this file by listing all open files in use by Peak (while it had message window open)

  • by Dan White,

    Dan White Dan White Apr 28, 2014 7:30 PM in response to oscar1965apple
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    Apr 28, 2014 7:30 PM in response to oscar1965apple

    How do you list all the open files in use by Peak ?

  • by oscar1965apple,

    oscar1965apple oscar1965apple Apr 29, 2014 1:57 PM in response to Dan White
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    Apr 29, 2014 1:57 PM in response to Dan White

    @Dan

    The simplest way is to use the app "Activity Monitor", select PeakPro in the list of All Processes running, press Cmd-i (or click the small "i" at the top bar), then choose the tab "Open Files and Ports".

    Otherwise use the Terminal app, and run "lsof -p <PID>" (where PID is the process id of Peak, a number like 2983), you get the PID by "ps -ef | grep Peak | grep -v Grep", the second field it's its PID. Of course the message box of PeakPro must be still present. This worked for me while I was not in Internet (i.e. WiFi disabled / no Ethernet cable etc), otherwise after I deleted the database.lock file, it was immediately recreated: weird, isn't it?

  • by Dan White,

    Dan White Dan White Apr 29, 2014 4:30 PM in response to oscar1965apple
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    Apr 29, 2014 4:30 PM in response to oscar1965apple

    Double-weird !

    If I disconnect the network, Peak Pro starts up.

    I can reconnect after the app starts with no problem.

     

    However, the database.lock trick does not work.

  • by luminousmusic,

    luminousmusic luminousmusic Mar 23, 2015 11:29 AM in response to luminousmusic
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    Mar 23, 2015 11:29 AM in response to luminousmusic

    to oscar1965apple

    Have we ever solved the issue of Peak Pro quitting unless network connections are shut down? I've just upgraded to OS 10.10.2. and disconnecting from network Peak Pro opened, much to my surprise. There must be a happy way to load the programme and not disconnect. Could there be a better solution?