Have you restarted the Mac or repaired permissions? It sounds like the Mac is blocking the app somehow.
Bill Vlahos Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Lars Brehmer <larsbreh...@mac.com> wrote: > I have a stack/standalone that I have been working with for months. Suddenly > I cannot open it in Rev (2.8) and the standalone won't launch either! > > To make things clear: the standalone is a splashscreen stack that contains > several compressed stacks as custom properties. When the standalone launches, > or the splashscreen stack launches in Rev, it looks for the other stacks in > (on a Mac) in users/myUserName/library/preferences/myPreferenceFolder. If the > stacks are not there, the compressed stacks in the custom properties of the > splashscreen stack are decompressed and placed into the preference folder. > Changes made to them are saved there. > > This has worked for many months - using either the standalone or opening the > splashscreen stack in Rev. > > Suddenly the standalone won't open (it bounces once in the dock and then > nothing) and the splashscreen stack won't open in Rev - Rev simply quits, no > warning, no error message, nothing! > > When I work on this app in Rev and make changes (to the stacks in the > preferences folder) and save, those stacks in the preferences folder are > compressed and they replace the compressed stacks in the custom properties of > the splashscreen stack. Everything always up-to-date. > > I have never encountered this problem before. Everything has always worked as > expected. > > The stacks that are stored in the preferences folder can all be opened in Rev > no problem. But the splashscreen simply won't open either as a standalone or > in Rev. This of course means that I can't open the stack in scriptDebug mode > and find the problem. > > I have tried to restore an earlier version of the stack using Time Machine, > but all previous versions that always worked at the time behave the same way > - Rev quits, no error message, nothing. The really weird thing is that I have > a copy of that splashscreen stack that is 2 months old and has never been > opened, but it won't open either!!!! Even though it is a copy of the original > which opened at the time and has always opened ever since until today! > > I have done the following to try to solve this; I trashed the Rev prefs, ran > Cocktail and restarted. I have tried several earlier versions (using time > machine) from days that definitely worked properly at the time. `None of them > work! Even if they did work, it doesn't explain why a standalone that always > worked before doesn't work now! > > I can't think of anything else to try. Any suggestions???? > > Cheers, > > Lars > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
