10.4.8: Rosetta/PowerPC apps still quitting...

Sigh. Continually employing the "workaround" is getting old.

You are correct - Micron, SAMSUNG, Hynix, Nanya are all installed. My new week 38 MBP came with Nanya and I added another GB of Nanya. My belief is that 10.4.8 is a flawed update. I dumped it because it screwed up my Airport reception - 10.4.7 and all is well again

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I recently upgraded to Mavericks from Snow Leopard. Does Snow Leopard still exist on my Mac? If so, is it possible to restart under Snow Leopard in order to run PowerPC apps? If not, is there an OS available in 64 bit that supports PowerPC apps? Mav ***.

I recently upgraded to Mavericks from Snow Leopard. Does Snow Leopard still exist on my Mac? If so, is it possible to restart under Snow Leopard in order to run PowerPC apps? If not, is there an OS available in 64 bit that supports PowerPC apps? Mav ***.

The only reason I upgraded to Mavericks was because my Snow Leopard OS was 32 bit, which I was told would support only 4GB of RAM.
That wasn't quite right. You can put in as much RAM as your Mac's hardware supports. The division is in the apps themselves. A 32 bit app can't use more than 4 GB or RAM. A 64 bit app can use much more.
For example, as a 32 bit only version, Photoshop CS3 can't use more 4GB of RAM, no matter how much you actually have installed. CS4 or later can use all the RAM you want to throw at it.

PowerPC apps won't launch under Rosetta

Hello,
All of a sudden none of the PowerPC apps will launch on my Mac Mini.
Examining the crash logs for each app shows :
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x0023a000
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 <<00000000>> 0xb569f2e6 0 + -1251347738
Thread 1:
0 LaunchCFMApp 0xb81f2deb strchr + 72
1 LaunchCFMApp 0xb818e52a pthreadcondwait + 3114
2 LaunchCFMApp 0xb812a9b0 catchexception_raise_stateidentity + 320
3 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8129eda CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 174780
4 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8129dd1 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 174515
5 LaunchCFMApp 0xb812aaae catchexception_raise_stateidentity + 574
6 LaunchCFMApp 0xb81c3f0c pthread_create + 1124
etc....
Does anyone have an idea about what happened to my Mac and how I can fix it?
Thanks,
Jesse
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Reboot your computer and immediately start a PPC application. Did it run?
If not try creating a new user account, restart and log immediately into that account. Now try running a PPC program. If it runs you know there's something in your user account causing the problem. If it doesn't you need to reinstall your MacOS.
If you rebooted and a PPC application didn't run or if the test above shows that the problem appears to be in your user account, run the Activity Monitor. Select All Processes and then look for a process called translated and force quit it. Now try running a PPC program. If this works then whenever you try to run a PPC program and it won't, repeat this step. Why? I dunno. But it seems to be an almost universal fix.

PowerPC apps start then immediately quit all the time...

9 times out of 10 a PowerPC app will start and then immediately quit. This happened with 1 GB RAM and it happens with 2 GB. It has happened since day one and I'm sick of it.
On a daily basis I use Word, Excel, Photoshop CS 2, Quicken 2005, Thoth, and a few other PowerPC apps. I cannot find, or do I want to find alternatives to these apps. I like them.
I've repaired permissions, run Disk Utility, reinstalled the 10.4.7 combo updater, et cetera. Nothing remedies this problem.
What could be causing PowerPC apps to almost never run on my brand new $3000 MBP?
MBP 2.16 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Sorry to hear of problems although you may have to end up purchasing Office for Mac 2004 if you don’t have already, and perhaps newer versions of other software favorites. With newer technology, comes new features and updated software to leverage that new technology.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wo/0.RSLID?mco=1 F8DF60D&nclm=MSStudentTeacherOffer
Now, if we can get Apple to make this forum web site more stable - that would be a true upgrade.
Regards,

App store quit unexpectly.... read/done a lot of trouble shooting conform forum sites..but still NO GO App store....can somebody help me with a kind of step by step plan? THX!!!!

Hi since 2 days i have a problem with the App Store (app store quit unexpectly). Yep i have done my Google Search on this 'problem' Yep I have done a lot of trash/repair and so on and so on.... still NO AppStore.... Is there somebody who can lead me step by step trough this 'problem'...? Thx!!!!

Does it work in a New user account ?
post the crash report

Force Quit showing apps still open

I've noticed this on a few occasions. Currently, I'm showing iBooks, Pages, & Preview are still open via the Force Quit dialog but I haven't used them since the previous evening. (Screen shot of dialog and dock for comparison).
I have an older Macbook (Aluminum, Late 2008) so I try to run as lean as possible. There are no extra windows open that I can find. Double clicking them from Force Quit brings them up to then quit from the application proper, however, I would really like the apps to quit when I tell them to.
Has this to do with iCloud integration? (Like Pages wasn't quite done with an iCloud upload before I quit).
Is it a random hang?
Should I try a reinstall of the apps or Mavericks? (I'm not even sure if 'still open app' is consistent).
Thanks in advance.

I've noticed this same problem, but with TextEdit and Preview. The dock will say all my apps are closed, but when I check in Force Quit, some of them are still open. Only noticed by accident once when I needed to Force Quit something else and was surprised by what was also listed in there as open.
As far as I can tell there are no negative effects of this happening . . . it's just annoying . . . which means Apple won't be fixing it anytime real soon.
I'm about to upgrade to Yosemite . . . wonder if it also happens there.
BTW, I've only seen it happen with Apple Apps . . . none of my other apps have shown up as "quit, but still open".
I'm on a Mac Mini running 10.9.5

Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) won't start After Effects CS5.5 because it's a powerpc app!?

I've had CS 5.5 Master Collection installed on my Mac since it came out. All the CS 5/5.5 apps I've used up to now have worked fine, in 64-bit mode (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, InDesign). Now I need to use After Effects, but I can't get it to start.
First it said it couldn't rename a Workspaces.xml file in the preferences directory in my home folder. In fact, there was no such file there at all. Nothing to rename. So, I uninstalled After Effects using its uninstaller; then reinstalled it from the install DVDs.
Now, it fails on startup saying the After Effects CS5.5 application cannot be run because PowerPC apps are no longer supported. True: OS X no longer runs apps that require Rosetta. CS 5.5 is does not require Rosetta; it's compatible with Lion. The OS 10.7 Known Issues KB article says nothing about After Effects: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/905/cpsid_90508.html?promoid=JBQYY
So...what's going on? I need this thing working for a project with a deadline! I don't get it. Anybody seen this before? (I didn't find anything in the discussions about it, nor Google...)

Interesting article, but I knew I was leaving PowerPC apps behind when I moved to OS 10.7, and Adobe claims that After Effects CS 5.5 is fully compatible with Lion. But you must be right about prefs; there's gotta be something causing the Mac OS to think this version of CS is ancient...
Since my initial message, I've tried and failed to find any details about how to select the right prefs to delete. I also ran Disk Utility to repair permissions on my system drive. That got rid of the PowerPC error:) Now on startup AE says mediacore fails to initialize. I can choose to quit or continue on that error, but continuing just results in another error that says dynamiclinkmanager unexpectedly quit, and then AE locks up and I have to force quit it. Not much progress!
No other answers on this so far... Before I uninstall the entire Creative Suite and then delete all Adobe system and hidden files everywhere, any more suggestions? Or a list of the right prefs I should trash?

Powerpc apps crash on Startup on Intel Macbook Pro

As the subject line says, after a undetermined amount of time, my Powerpc apps stop launching, crashing on start up, and I have to reboot the computer to make things good again. Probably have to reboot once a day to fix the problem, sometimes more, sometimes less.
Basically everything from Word and Excel to Maya.
Any thoughts?
j

Jimmyt,
Off the top of my head, the only possibility that makes any sense is that you have a bad RAM module. It is possible that a module would pass any tests you could perform, yet still cause a single error that would bring Rosetta (or anything stored in that memory location) down.
I recommend removing one of the DIMMS you have installed, then testing. If the problem persists, swap the two DIMMS, and test again. If in either test the problem doesn't recur, you have found your bad module.
Scott

POWERPC APP are no longer supported

I recently bought a new Mac. After installing Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium I am unable to open the program's. The following message appears : .. unable to open CS2 because PowerPC app are no longer supported. I read on Apple forum that this has to do with the new OS Maverics. Does this mean that I must purchase the whole program again ??

No, you do not have to repurchase the program. You do, however, need to make sure you install Rosetta, which will run outdated software like this still. I am STILL working on figuring out how to get Rosetta on mine since the update (without checking the Rosetta box) was already done. If you figure out how to get Rosetta after the update has been done, PLEASE let me know. That's the problem I am having...

Is it possible to run PowerPC apps in Mavericks?

I have an iMac that has been running OS X 10.6.8 for a while, but I just updated to Mavericks (10.9.2). I have the 10.6.2 install disc with rosetta and I have tried to reinstall rosetta a couple of times now, but I still can't open any PowerPC apps. I am wondering if there is any other way to use PPC apps in Mavericks.

S\'Moore wrote:
I don't know exactly what you mean by "partition", but if you let me know how to do that, it sounds like it would work best. I also tried VirtualBox, but I couldn't get it to work correctly.
Use Disk Utility in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder to create a 2nd partition on your internal hard drive. It makes the Mac think that two separate hard drives are connected to it.
Then install Snow Leopard (with the optional Rosetta and IMHO QuickTime 7) into the 2nd partition.
Then using Startup Disk in System Preferences, you can decide which flavor of OS X will be active when you restart your Mac: Mavericks or Snow Leopard.
Using the other option that Kurt suggests, with VirtualBox, should work, but you are best off to purchase Snow Leopard Server for $20 from Apple for ease of installation into VirtualBox and continued use and maintenance:
1.800.MYAPPLE (1.800.692.7753) - Apple Part Number: MC588Z/A (telephone orders only)
Snow Leopard client can be installed into Parallels with some difficulty, but the cost of Parallels would exceed your cost to just purchase Snow Leopard Server, which should easily install into VirtualBox (although I personally have no experience with VirtualBox).

I have recently purchased MacBook Pro with Mac OSX 10.7.3 Lion and I would like to install Final Cut Pro 6 Studio2, and it came up with this error: 'you can't open application FinalCutProStudio.mpkg because PowerPc apps are no longer supported..pls advise

I have recently purchased MacBook Pro with Mac OSX 10.7.3 Lion and I would like to install Final Cut Pro 6 Studio2, and it came up with this error: 'you can't open application FinalCutProStudio.mpkg because PowerPc apps are no longer supported......Is there a way to run FCP6 on lion withoput this error? Any help would be appreciated.....

Hi Shane,
Just one more quesiton re: this topic, I am looking to get rosetta but do not have Leopard or Snow Leopard...
I read that it is not on Snow Leopard only on Leopard....so do I need to get only Leopard? Can u advise?
Alternatively I do have Mac OS X Tiger so is it on this and can I install it from here?
Please excuse my lack of knowledge here, just trying to get my FCP 6 up and running asap....
Best Rgds.

My imac is running mountain lion and last night i downloaded maverick. in midst of installing it it said a powerPC app microsoft word would not work so i canceled the install for the time being. my questions is if i choose to finish installing maverick

my imac is running mountain lion and last night i downloaded maverick. in midst of installing it, it said a powerPC app microsoft word would not work so i canceled the install for the time being. my questions is if i choose to finish installing maverick does that mean i will nevver be able to access word documents stored on my desktop? or do the word docs automatically convert to pages or what? i am so confused. would i be better off just sticking with mountain lion and send the maverick install to the trash? hoping someone will be able to answer my question though i am afraid the response is likely to be just stick with mountain lion so you can keep using word. i had been looking forward to maverick but it seems pretty drastic to not have access to microsoft word anymore by switching to maverick. hope someone has an answer so i can have the best of both worlds so to speak!

thanks for your response Csound1 on the peninsula ... if i go ahead and install maverick and then download LibreOffice or OpenOffice will i then be able to access old microsoft word saved documents on my deskstop through those two free alternatives? i am not that knowledgeable about these things so i am not sure if you are saying i will just be able to use libreoffice or openoffice for creating new documents or whether i can access the saved microsoft docs? are they transferred to OO or LO or what and if editing of the old word docs is needed can i do that through the OO and LO programs or apps (see i am not even sure if i am using the correct vocabulary!) hope you can answer this as quick as the first question, so i can decide to stick with mountain lion and trash the maverick install or proceed with maverick install and hoppe that my microsoft word docs are still accessible through OO or LO or adding to myquestion will pages on maverick be able to open the old word documents? thanks again!

Trying to Update OS App Store Quits Unexpectedly running 10.8.2

I am having trouble updating to 10.8.3. When I try the App store quits unexpectedly. Any Advise. Pease Help

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the process. The report name starts with the name of the crashed process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

HELP!! My Apple "MAIL" app. unexpectedly quits each time I open it.

My Apple "MAIL" app. unexpectedly quits each time I open it.
It will begin to load my mail, show the mailboxes and new e-mails and then all of a sudden quit.
I searched some of the Apple support and forums and have tried these things:
1. I trashed the "com.apple.mail.plist" preference file in the pref. folder.
2. I did an archieve install with Tiger OSX on my entire System Folder.
3. I erased my user>library>"mail folder"
4. I tried holding the shift key upon opening the program as suggested here but to no avail: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=479497&tstart=0
This has not resolved the problem. The program still quits every time I open it.
Pleeeeease help!!!!!!!!! DO YOU THINK I HAVE A VIRUS???
Here is my crash data:
Date/Time: 2006-06-06 15:15:59.264 -0700
OS Version: 10.4 (Build 8A428)
Report Version: 3
Command: Mail
Path: /Users/netgear/Desktop/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Parent: WindowServer [86]
Version: 2.0 (727)
Build Version: 1
Project Name: MailViewer
Source Version: 7270000
PID: 386
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000006
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x932d598c c4_HandlerSeq::ColumnType(int) const + 32
1 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x932d5950 c4_HandlerSeq::IsNested(int) const + 16
2 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x932d4fe8 c4HandlerSeq::Restructure(c4Field&, bool) + 56
3 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x932d52a8 c4HandlerSeq::Restructure(c4Field&, bool) + 760
4 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x933bb6e8 c4_Storage::SetStructure(char const*) + 244
5 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x932d7eec c4_Storage::GetAs(char const*) + 932
6 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x932d8e14 cacheViews + 240
7 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x932d319c -[ABAddressBook nts_OpenContactManagerWithMode:cacheSchema:] + 452
8 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x932d1cf8 -[ABAddressBook nts_InitDefaultContactManager] + 1052
9 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x932d1834 +[ABAddressBook nts_SharedAddressBook] + 76
10 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x932d1768 +[ABAddressBook nts_CreateSharedAddressBook] + 76
11 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x932d168c +[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] + 80
12 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9aa26a60 +[Account myFullName] + 52
13 com.apple.mail 0x0012172c 0x1000 + 1181484
14 com.apple.mail 0x000e6768 0x1000 + 939880
15 com.apple.Foundation 0x90b05d18 __NSFireDelayedPerform + 304
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x902b6f90 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 184
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x902a3908 __CFRunLoopRun + 1680
18 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x902a2ebc CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 268
19 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x91fd4fc0 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 264
20 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x91fd45cc ReceiveNextEventCommon + 244
21 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x91fd44c0 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 96
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x924bd384 _DPSNextEvent + 384
23 com.apple.AppKit 0x924bd048 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 116
24 com.apple.AppKit 0x924b95ac -[NSApplication run] + 472
25 com.apple.AppKit 0x925a9e04 NSApplicationMain + 452
26 com.apple.mail 0x0000328c 0x1000 + 8844
27 com.apple.mail 0x000a5bac 0x1000 + 674732

A few of the messages I deleted (the last 2 days) now say
"You need to take this account online in order to download it."
If this is the result of having deleted the *.emlx files manually, you're probably seeing this error message because there is still a reference to them in Envelope Index.
Is there anyway to tell Mail to re-download these
mail files and reconnect them?
If they're still on the server, yes. Choose Get Info (⌘I) from the Action menu located below the mailboxes list in the main Mail window to open the Account Info window -- type "Account Info" in the search field of Mail Help for more information on this feature. Now, choose the account that has the problem from the Account popup menu at the top of the window. Does Mail display there the messages that are missing? What type of account is this (POP, IMAP, .Mac)?

How to batch remove PowerPC apps?

Like many of you, I have moved to Lion Mac OS X 10.7.1.
Without Rosetta support old PowerPC apps are rendered useless as you know. I have no burning desire to support these old apps but I discovered that I have hundreds of PowerPC legacy apps littering my startup drive. Short of tediously manually removing each PowerPC apps, is there a way to batch remove all of these apps and associated code? Is there any danger in doing a batch removal like this?
If there isn't a way to do this batch removal might Automator help with something like this and could anyone give me some Automator steps to take to achieve this?
Thanks!
PWRMAC (I'm going to have to change this name one of these days!)

You can remove collections of objects with an EntryProcessor and cache.invoke(). The built-in processor ConditionalRemove() with Always/Present filters should do the trick.
In terms of performance however, note that cache delete operations are always synchronous (even with write-behind) - so removing large sets of objects will be a bottleneck if you have an attached cachestore.

10.4.8: Rosetta/PowerPC apps still quitting...

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