Tiger 10.4.11
Just downloaded Quicktime 7.6. Finder now jumps to front window every 2 minutes or so, preempting any other program. How can I get back to 7.5.5 which worked fine?
I'm also experiencing sims 2 not launching (granted its not the same game, but same publisher and others are also having same problems). The files that you mention your post as still being there after you "pacified" your machine:
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/.DS_Store
These are both "invisible" files which are used by mac os x for some purpose or other and are not of any interest to you as they appear in
every directory (or folder) of your system, to illustrate that, try copying a random folder of images or text files to a usb stick and then try to open the stick on a windows machine (tho your usb stick will need to be formatted as FAT 16 or FAT 32 to read on windows), then you'll the ".ds_store" files.
In any case, even if you could delete them, which you can't without some fancy software that will show you hidden files, they're almost certainly guaranteed to have no effect on the issue at hand.
As far as I can see, there only these options left:
1. wait for apple to produce Quicktime patch 7.6.1 or whatever
2. wait for aspyr to produce patches for our games
3. archive and install a new system (which is not a real option and will cause waaay too many problems to be worth the effort.
Thanks Max, I normally try to resolve problems myself, but I guess in this case that's not going to be possible. I appreciate your answer. Waiting ...... taping foot .......
This discussion board is great! Thought I was going insane, but thanks to you guys my finder no longer quits...Did the same thing, I just went to System Prefs, clicked on Stuffit AVR, and hit the Stop button...instant success. Thanks again everybody
""It seems all to be linked to Stuffit and a preference called Stuffit AVR (Archive Via Rename): In your system preferences go to the bottom and click on the Stuffit AVR option. Click the Stuffit AVR tab
on the left, and click the "STOP" button. This should do the trick. For some reason this is cycling through our desktop/finder and causing so much of the frustration since this update.""
Reading through the threads lead me to my fix!
I had Stuffit 10 and this was causing the whole issue for the last 7 days.
After turning this bad-boy off, the FINDER is now stable and behaving!!
Mad-Ray
That's good news Falstaff, at least you know Word and QuickTime aren't getting along. Furthermore, Word and Quicktime get along fine under another account, so your problem is fixable.
I'd start looking in your ~/Library/Preferences folder for anything Microsoft. Drag suspected plist files onto the Desktop and reboot.
My computer just down load the new quick time 7.6 and willnot run my version of Sims. I need to re download the old version of quicktime. How can I do this. I found older versions but it won't let me install them. Any help would be appreciated.
OK, I had the same problem. Spent 1.5hr with support. I was told to do a tiger reinstall. BUT i did a search on the web for the problem.
HERE IS THE LINK:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090121223437550 On my comp, it was STUFFIT
