Quicktime 7.6.4 WORKAROUND on Snow Leopard Just Discovered

Hey All -Well all of you that want to stay on SL and use Quicktime in its native form, I have a break though (I think) ha ha
When I first installed SL -I didnt install QT off the SL disc-when I went back and tried it later -QT 7 just locked up on me-So I reverted to the 10.6 Time Machine backup -
Well I then partitioned my HD into (2) and installed 10.5.6 on it to test some things-Well it just so happened that I am working off my SL partition and was watching some movie trailers and QT 7 PRO is in my (open with) list- and its works -
QT 7 PRO is not in my utilities on Snow -I used Spotlight to find it and sure enough it is on my partition with 10.5.6 and its working on my SL partition.
Some may feel different about this but all I know is its working on SL and I have all my exports back in QT 7 PRO on SL partition
Matt

The thing is, "Quicktime" is *not an application* & won't show up as such anywhere. There are two available versions of the Quicktime Player application, both supported by the Quicktime frameworks built into Snow Leopard. It doesn't matter if the installer adds the version 7 player to your system automatically because you have a QT Pro license & do an upgrade install, if you use the OS installer option to install it (applies to both upgrade & clean installs), or if you do it as a separate install from the extras (also applies to both upgrade & clean installs) -- its just an application, & like all applications it depends on OS services running on the startup volume to work. This is the only "native" version of Quicktime (the service) available in Snow Leopard. If the startup volume is running Snow Leopard, then that OS is providing these services, regardless of where you put the application.
If it doesn't, there is something wrong with your installation, your hardware, or the files you are trying to play. Period.

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