Sealed Media Unsealer

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Sealed Media Unsealer

I have just switched to a new iMAC running snow leopard. I migrated everything on my old iMAC (os10.5) to this one. When I start, I get an error message that "SealedMedia Unsealer cannot run on this version of Mac OSx ..." I have no idea what SealedMedia Unsealer is or why I might want it. But I sure would like to get rid of this error message.

When I ran a spotlight search it showed two items in my computer with SealedMedia as part of their name: One a "mime type"and the other "SealedMediaUnsealerStub" which is a document in the internet plug ins folder within the HD library.

Can anyone tell me

a) what the Sealed Media Unsealer is and what it supposedly does. Why do I want it?

b) is there any reason not to trash the two files referenced above?

Thanks in advance.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jun 6, 2011 8:41 AM

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Answer 1

sig

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Jun 6, 2011 8:53 AM in response to MikeLV

Read this post:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1226037?answerId=5787738022#5787738022&messageID=5787738

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MikeLV Author

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Jun 6, 2011 9:45 AM in response to sig

Thank you. This was somewhat helpful. Although the person who posted in all caps warning that what someone else did crashed his computer causes me high anxiety. Plus I note all pre-date Snow Leopard.

But this still begs the question - What is Sealed Media Unsealer? What does it do? And why might I want it in the first place?

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msuper69

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Jun 6, 2011 9:55 AM in response to MikeLV

http://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/FAQ.html

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Answer 4

Jul 28, 2011 6:20 AM in response to msuper69

Cengagebrain doesn't seem to support SealedMedia Unsealer and when you type www.sealedmedia.com you end up on Oracle's Information Rights Management page, which is not what you want.

To answer MikeLV's question, SealedMedia is a content management client which controls the distribution of electronic documents. Basically it's a way for a content owner to ensure its documents cannot be copied at will and distributed. It ensures, via a computer ID-document ID pair that only one document is installed on one computer.

The fact is SealedMedia is compatible only with Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.5, so Snow Leopard won't do. If you had SealedMedia, you should remove it manually.

That means removing it from the Application folder, but also from HD / Library / StartupItems

Does this shoud solve the problem with warnings when you power up or down your computer that SealedMedia couldn't run.

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MikeLV Author

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Aug 15, 2011 6:47 AM in response to mmgrossmann

You nailed it. Thank you. the key was also removing it from the startup items folder.

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Aug 21, 2011 9:25 AM in response to mmgrossmann

Thank you so much for your response! I have been pounding my head against a wall wondering how to get rid of that thing since I upgraded, even after I followed the "uninstallation instructions" I managed to find somewhere. It's odd being clueless when your role is normally that of the one with all the computer answers! 😕

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Aug 21, 2011 12:13 PM in response to iowasteve

You're welcome. I also tried all kinds of things. First I wanted to reinstall it to uninstall it 'properly' and so I looked for the latest version from SealedMedia. The company seemed to have been absorbed by Oracle, so I looked to them for answers, I was told I had to be personnally one of their clients to get assistance. The CengageBrain site seemed to know nothing of SealedMedia either.

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