Quicktime 6.5.1 update anywhere?

Thanks, but I'm afraid to try that. Installers can do too much damage to your OS, especially the wrong ones.

You're supposed to have QT 7 installed to use that, and I don't. I want to go UP from 6.5, not DOWN from 7 to 6.5.

Why would Apple remove the updaters to 6.5, unless maybe it's just a ploy to force you into 7?

Yes, but look at all the complaints other people have about it all over these forums. With my luck, or lack of it, I'd be one of the poor saps that QS 7 has made life miserable for.

Besides, as I said earlier, I paid $30 to turn my QT 6.5 into the pro version, and Apple wants that money all over again if you go up to 7.

So, am I to take it that the update to 6.5.1 or .2 has been pulled by Apple, and now you're stuck with 7 only, if you need to go up some?

OK, I got the update to 6.5.2; thanks for the link. I had done several searches of this site without finding it, so all I can say is that they don't make it easy to locate -- obviously they'd rather push Quicktime 7 than updates to 6.

I wanted 6.5.1 or above because Flip4Mac WMV Player refuses to run with any version of Quicktime less than that, but the laugh is on me I guess because now that I have 6.5.2 WMV Player still won't run. This time instead of complaining about the version of Quicktime, a box pops up that says "Couldn't open the file ----- because it is not a file that QuickTime understands." Flip4Mac is supposed to make QT understand WMV, but for some reason it's not doing it.

WMV video files are encountered all over the web, and I could swear that I had been opening and viewing them with Flip4Mac WMV Player before I did an "archive and install" of my OS. I had even saved some of them on my hard drives, but now I can't play them anymore. Typical computer glitch; usually such mysteries are never solved, at least not by me.

Oh well, thanks for the help everyone.

Tom

Thanks. Yes, that's what I say to myself, too, good luck sorting the problem. My experience has been over the years that if you really make use of your Mac to the fullest as I do, running various kinds of scanners, SCSI devices, external drives, video converter boxes (analog to digital), connect video cameras, multiple printers and monitors, use the Adobe suite, iMovie and Final Cut, etc. etc. inevitably things in the OS start to go sour and screw up. The OS just can't handle so many different tasks and devices reliably.

I can usually do an archive-and-install of the OS and clear up a lot of problems; others remain mysterious and unbelievably stubborn. You could spend all of your time trying to fix such problems, if you allowed it, so eventually you just have to give up and live with some. This WMV thing may be one such.

For another example, I just went through days of discussion in the iDVD form trying to figure out why iDVD will no longer burn disks on this computer, and after trying many things to fix it, all failures, we finally gave up and I now create disk images with iDVD instead, and burn them to DVDs with Toast.

Now after this latest archive-and-install, the Flip4Mac WMV player, like iDVD, has decided to find all possible excuses not to work (it is a Microsoft program anyway, isn't it?). Yes, I could get out Pogue's book on OS-X again, visit all the forums and write, write, write about the trouble, try all the suggestions offered, devote hours to the problem, do another A & I, maybe get it going again, and then the next thing would screw up. It's an endless cycle. Eventually you decide that if you are ever going to get any work done with the computer, you are going to just have to live with some of these problems.

The last time I had everything working great, and was congratulating myself on all the successes I'd had in troubleshooting problems and getting everything working fine, I turned on the computer one morning to find a gray screen that never changed. That was the signal for the next round of trouble. Now, at the moment I write this, the most important programs are working OK again, so I will just live with the fact that I can't play WMV files anymore. And got on with my work.

Well, after chasing upgrades for many years, always trying to have the latest and newest of everything, I decided that you just have to draw the line somewhere, and stick with what you have for as long as possible. Besides, so many people have regretted moving up to Quicktime 7 and are scrambling to get back down to 6 that it sounds like a risky move anyway.

I spent many hundreds of dollars to buy the Adobe Creative Suite 2, which of course was touted as the best and ultimate group of programs in every possible way. Now of course it's old-hat and obsolete because CS-3 is out. All software is like that; you can only get the "fantastic new (whatever)" if you upgrade. Endlessly. And expensively, both in money and the time spent relearning programs and troubleshooting problems.

My current philosophy is to buy only whatever I need to do what I want to do, no matter how new or old it is, and stick with it as long as it continues to do the job. Right now 10.3.9 works fine with CS-2 and the other programs and hardware I'm using, and many of those programs are "obsolete" versions (Final Cut Express 2, iLife 4, etc.) but THEY WORK (most of the time)! Some wise person said that you should never be the first nor the last to upgrade, and I believe in that.

Most important of all is: when everything is working well, leave it alone. LEAVE IT ALONE! Don't add any plug-ins, updates, or upgrades when everything is working fine! You're only asking for trouble!

Tom