Lion 10.7.3 and SPSS 20

Hello,

I try to use SPSS 20 on my MacBook Air (2011) because I need it for university. It's a student version, so I won't get support from IBM.

I have no problems to install and register the program. But when I try to open the program, SPSS won't open correctly. The program shows up at the dock but it hangs after some seconds.

I tried a lot, check permissions (everything was fine as fare as i can see) and found out, I can start it correctly with the sudo command. I use "sudo /Applications/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/20/SPSSStatistics.app/Contents/MacOS/stats".

This solution works for me, but I would prefer to find the problem and solve it.

btw I have the newest version of Java for Lion.

Any idea/help for me?

Best regards

Macbook (Alu), Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Mar 23, 2012 2:22 AM

21 replies

morechicken Author

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Apr 30, 2012 2:22 PM in response to Barney-15E

Will it help if I change the permissions of some folders/files? If yes, how can I find out which permission I have to change? Or is there anything else I could try?

Barney-15E

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Apr 30, 2012 4:23 PM in response to morechicken

I don't know. Wherever it is trying to save the preferences.

The base name for java preferences is supposed to be java.util.preferences., but they may have altered that.

ProfRafi

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May 1, 2012 8:02 AM in response to Robert-T

Robert Hi- Could you share with us how you created the automator app..... I thought I knew how to do this!!!!

Best

finn0100

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May 20, 2012 4:36 PM in response to morechicken

Thanks for the command-- I had the same problem upon just purchasing the student version of SPSS 20.

a brody

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Sep 3, 2012 7:54 AM in response to ProfRafi

If you haven't already, try upgrading to Java 1.7 version 7 from Oracle.

http://www.java.com/en/download/mac_download.jsp?locale=en

Jtc82

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Oct 5, 2012 1:47 PM in response to morechicken

I am having this same problem. Has anyone resolved it? How do you implement the sudo command?

Thanks

John

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