Don't trust that snowleopard.wikidot list as Gospel...

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Don't trust that snowleopard.wikidot list as Gospel...

Ok, I've been panicking for a few days as I got the SL disk and was ready to upgrade... you see I'm a professional screenwriter and use the program Final Draft 7. I am happy with v.7, Final Draft has come out recently with v.8 but there is absolutely no reason for me to upgrade -- until... I went to the snowleopard.wikidot.com sight and right there it says: Final Draft 7 -- WILL REQUIRE ROSETTA... so before I installed SL I almost bought the $100 Final Draft upgrade (The full program costs (about $300)several times but held back. Last night I upgrade my Macs to SL, and Final Draft 7 WORKS beautifully, WITHOUT Rosetta. I will be registering on the wiki sight to make this correction, but my hunch is that in my opinion that sight is now unreliable, or even suspect for software companies (Final Draft?) to put that a program is not compatible so you upgrade to the newer version. But the moral of this tale is, don;t just take that info as Gospel, especially the less popular apps... Final Draft 7 IN NO WAY requires Rosetta... now I gotta get back to writing 🙂

20" iMac G5, 2Ghz ALS, 2GB Ram, 400GB HD - 12" Powerbook 1.5 Ghz, 1.25GB Ram, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Aug 30, 2009 11:51 AM

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Barney-15E

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Aug 30, 2009 11:56 AM in response to Applewiz

Rosetta is an optional install in Snow Leopard. From what I've read, it will detect PPC apps and install
Rosetta if needed. So, Final Draft 7 probably does require Rosetta, and it got installed on your computer.

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Answer 2

Aug 30, 2009 12:03 PM in response to Applewiz

When you do a full install of SL, Rosetta is installed, so it is possible that your copy of Final Draft 7 is actually running under Rosetta. It is also possible that you have a Universal Binary of Final Draft 7, which wouldn't require Rosetta. Finally, the intel binaries of some universal binary programs are quirky under Snow Leopard. In order to avoid the gotchas, some have resorted to running the PPC version under Rosetta (or in some cases, forcing the program to load 32-bit binaries of the intel version).

In general, Wikidiot will post notices even if only a few people are experiencing difficulties. For example, many people are able to run Adobe CS3 with no difficulty, while a few run into problems because of specific pluggins or scripts.

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Aug 30, 2009 12:07 PM in response to Barney-15E

Well, if Rosetta got installed by itself, why when I go to launch Adobe CS2 (which I haven't uninstalled yet) and MacTheRipper my systen=m pops a message up, "Said app will require Rosetta to run, do you want to install it now?" That would lead me to believe that Rosetta is NOT installed, no?

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Aug 30, 2009 12:12 PM in response to willdenow

Well, that wiki website almost had me spend a needless $100 on Final Draft 8 when v.7 is working fine and I am assuming Rosetta was NOT installed as a few other apps I launch say they need Rosetta to run and do I want to install it. SO did Rosetta install or did snowleopard.wikidot.com give me wrong information? I am confused.

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d-f3ns

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Aug 30, 2009 12:13 PM in response to Applewiz

I was under the impression that Rosetta was installed with the OS, regardless?

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Aug 30, 2009 12:22 PM in response to d-f3ns

Well, it doesn't seem that way... as my system keeps asking me if I wanna install it when I try to launch an app that would require it. Although my app Final Draft 7 is listed here: snowleopard.wikidot.com as requiring Rosetta I am certain that the info contained on this site, for this specific app is incorrect. So maybe others should be cautious about what apps work and don;t work on Snow Leopard.

I do have a hunch that Rosetta is installed as a dormant package, and if you say 'ok' when it tells you you need Rosetta to run an app and do you wanna install it, it will install it WITHOUT the need to re inserting the SL disk. I haven;t tried this but it;s just a hunch. So maybe this is the confusion about whether Rosetta is installed or not by default. Maybe it's in the system, but has not actually been installed yet. Anyone?

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Barney-15E

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Aug 30, 2009 12:34 PM in response to Applewiz

The only thing on that site for Final Draft 7 is Unknown and Will require Rosetta. Neither one of those can I construe to mean, "You must upgrade to v8."

If you Get Info on the app, it will indicate whether it is Universal or not.

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Aug 30, 2009 12:34 PM in response to Applewiz

It would appear that the wiki website is not correct otherwise Rosetta would not be asking you to install for these other programs.

Once Rosetta is installed, other programs that you open would not be asking to install it again.

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Aug 30, 2009 12:38 PM in response to Barney-15E

Excuse me for being well, confused and fluent in the English language. "UNKNOWN" and "WILL... Require Rosetta" makes no sense. It should say "MAY/MIGHT/COULD... Require Rosetta." Unknown and Will should never be in that same area. It almost cost me $100.

I am going on the record: FINAL DRAFT 7 DOES NOT REQUIRE ROSETTA... and that my is not an UNKNOWN.

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Barney-15E

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Aug 30, 2009 1:49 PM in response to Applewiz

After thinking about this for a while, I'm not sure why I didn't start with this:

Do you really trust anything on the Internet?

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Applewiz Author

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Aug 30, 2009 4:47 PM in response to Barney-15E

That is the most insightful answer yet, thanks for answering my question man!

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