[AG-TECH] Does latest AG for Intel Mac (3.2b1) really run under Mac OS 10.5.5?

R. P. C. Rodgers rodgers at arborvitae.com
Sun Nov 9 20:59:29 CST 2008


Added wrinkle:  it was only for the top item in the bridge list that 
nothing worked -- for all other
entries, control-click *was* equivalent to right-click...  odd one, this...

Richard Rodgers wrote:
> Dear AG Colleagues,
>
> My difficulties were due to a silly mistake on my part: version 3.2b1 
> is running on my iMac and
> PowerBook Pro -- I had, as I often do, moved the AccessGrid folder 
> from /Applications into
> /Users/Shared, where I prefer to keep locally installed software when 
> possible, to simplify
> backups and management.  When I moved it back into /Applications, all 
> was well.  It might
> be worth giving some thought to allowing the directory to be rooted in 
> places other than
> /Applications.
>
> On a separate note, though, when it first came up, it tested 31 
> bridges, then complained that
> bridges were disabled and suggested that I look in Preferences to 
> remedy that.  I opened
> Preferences, and selected "Bridging," and indeed every bridge appears 
> as "Disabled."  Above
> the list of bridges the popup instructs one to "Right-click a bridge 
> below to enable or disable it."
> I have no clue what they mean by "right-click" on a Mac.  I tried 
> holding down the Control, Option, and Command keys while clicking 
> (suggested by tricks used by X Windows on the
> Mac), to no avail.  How do I turn on those bridges?  :)
>
>
> Cheers, Rick Rodgers
> ----------------------------
>
> Todd Zimmerman wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:07 -0400, R. P. C. Rodgers wrote:
>>  
>>> Dear AG Colleagues,
>>>
>>> The very latest AG package, 3.2 beta 1, claims to work on the Intel 
>>> Mac under Mac OS X 10.5 --
>>> but it refuses to start on my 10.5.5 machines.  Can someone remind 
>>> me of where to look for the
>>> appropriate log files to start trying to figure out the problem?  
>>> Alternatively, is there a known
>>> problem using it under 10.5.5?  Thanks in advance for any guidance.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> I'm currently running 3.2 beta (build 1) on a 10.5.5 intel laptop and
>> all seems to be working fine (except the usual audio issues).
>>
>>
>> I believe the logs can be found in ~/.AccessGrid3/Logs
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Todd
>>
>>   
>
>




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