Many programs I used to use in Tiger doesn't work in Leopard [Archive]

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iPowers

Dec 27, 2007, 06:54 PM

Here are the ones I've noticed have not been working or have errors:

iMovie
iChat
Yahoo Messenger
Adium
VisualHub

There are probably like 10 more but I haven't seen it yet. Why are so many programs are acting like this. I was thinking it was becasuse it wasn't ugpraded enough but I did install the newer version and it doesn't work.

kflook

Dec 27, 2007, 06:56 PM

...I was thinking it was becasuse it wasn't ugpraded enough but I did install the newer version and it doesn't work....

Which installation method of Leopard did you use?

iPowers

Dec 27, 2007, 11:56 PM

I did it from the CD and I did the custom install (if that is what you meant)

mad jew

Dec 28, 2007, 12:10 AM

...But was it an upgrade, an archive, or a reformat (clean) install?

iPowers

Dec 28, 2007, 12:23 AM

an upgrade

Cromulent

Dec 28, 2007, 12:30 AM

an upgrade

Reinstall doing an archive and install. All those programs work fine in Leopard. Sounds like you screwed something up.

JNB

Dec 28, 2007, 12:51 AM

Reinstall doing an archive and install. All those programs work fine in Leopard. Sounds like you screwed something up.

Particularly if iChat & iMovie aren't working. As far as the others, I know that Adium is working under Leopard, YM and VH I can't speak to.

iPowers

Dec 28, 2007, 07:57 AM

so if I do an archive and install even t hough I already upgraded it would still be fine? And would it get rid of any data I already have?

byakuya

Dec 28, 2007, 08:00 AM

iPowers

Dec 28, 2007, 12:22 PM

I don't know about the whole list but adium sure works fine on my leopard...
I did a clean install of leopard though...if you plan on clean installing I'd recommend cloning your drive with carbon copy cloner and then copying back all the files you need.

I will not do a clean install? Doesn't that get rid of all the data you have on the computer? I was tinking of doing the archive and install, but i don't know if that would be t he best idea it is probably the best/safest option.

mad jew

Dec 28, 2007, 03:07 PM

An Archive & Install technically shouldn't delete anything, but get everything backed up just in case. You may need to reinstall these apps, too.

byakuya

Dec 28, 2007, 04:21 PM

a clean install basically is erasing your whole hd and installing the os.
when you do this be sure to make a backup of your drive (using carbon copy cleaner for example).

archive and install keeps the old files on the drive.
but still I do recommend having a backup also when archive and install -ing.
backup is a must before anything major like an os upgrade.

iPowers

Dec 29, 2007, 08:27 AM

Ok I tried to do te archive and install and it said I couldn't. I would do a clean install but the problem is I have over 120 GB of space and ther eis no way my parents would get me a bac kup drive to store it all in and the backup drives i have dont' hav enough space for it.

Now I did a suggestion in the Adium support by going into another account and seeing what happened.

Out of all the programs I said above, they all worked perfectly in another account except for imovie.

Meaning I shouldn't do an install it must be something in the library that is making it do this, sort of like that blue screen deal.

imovie i dont' get why that still doesn't work. The rest of iLife works except for imovie and when I had the older verson it worked just fine.

mad jew

Dec 29, 2007, 02:30 PM

It might be easiest to migrate your basic data across to the new account rather than trying to find the culprit file or files.

iPowers

Jan 3, 2008, 12:01 PM

yeah I think I may have to do that. What i've noticed is when I upgrade it ends up working, which I got a lot of good programs to work. If I continue to do that it works fine. Out of the programs I use the only ones I still can't access is Adium and Yahoo messenger (there are others but I still need to upgrade them) and I upgraded those but i am getting su[pport on t hem hopefully to get it fixed.

If all else fails I will probably do that.

could uninstalling it and reinstalling it make it work?

Matari

Jan 7, 2008, 04:42 AM

Hi

Macintouch is a great site - been going since macs were first introduced - has a big list of what is and is not compatible with leopard which is constantly updated.

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/leopard/index.html#d04jan2008

Eric Lewis

Jan 7, 2008, 06:31 AM