Problems with Google Earth

@Zwhaler

That is very odd. I could only suggest hunting out the pref file and trashing it. Also any related caches.

 

Have you tried trashing these two folders

~/library/Application Support/Google Earth

~/Library/Caches/Google Earth

And this file...

~/Library/Preferences/com.Google.GoogleEarthPlus.plist

 

Hello

When you say "now it works.." do you mean 'now' as in, after trashing the files and folders I suggested?

Answering this would help. As for downloading it again, well it can't hurt can it. But remember if you do redownload and it is the files I've indicated that are corrupted, that the old files will remain even after redownloading.

It would be really really useful for anyone who might want to help you to know for sure if you have tried trashing the files and folders I suggested. Then we can concentrate on other stuff.

 

It seems unlikely, but I wonder if there's some bug/problem that's specific to the Core 2 Duo iMacs? I've got a Core Duo iMac and Google Earth runs better on this machine than on any other machine I've ever used it on. It's fast and stable.

 

@Zwhaler]

Oh well that's me out of ideas then. Looks like its a problem outside of your home folder. But just to be sure you could make a new account (which you should have anyway) and run it there and see if it also crashes.

 

I had the same problem with Google Earth and my brand new iMac. First I downloaded the latest version of Google Earth (ver.4 I believe it was) and it would close by itself after a few seconds or couple minutes, if I was lucky.

Went back to their web site and downloaded a previous version (ver.3.1) and had no problems ever since.

I've had the same problem with other programs (Powerpoint, Illustrator, etc.) but I've been upgrading to the latest versions of each one and the problem gets solved (except for Powerpoint - still have to download Office 2004).

HTH

Halcyon

 

It's important to note that version 3 of Google Earth isn't Universal, so you'll probably see fairly significantly reduced performance compared to Google Earth 4 (which works fine on my Intel iMac) on your iMac.

 

Yes, good point, but you have to make do with what you can...and for now you must agree that running Google Earth 3.1 is way faster that version 4 which doesn't run (at least for me).

If you read many other post on this forum, you will notice that many guys with brand new Intel iMac's (like me) are having trouble with applications unexpectedly closing on them. I think there are issues with OSX10.4 and new intel iMac's...that I hope will be resolved with Leopard

Halcyon

Intel Core Duo iMac 1.5GB/1.83Ghz/160GB/OSX10.4.7