Help Viewer killed... by macromedia?

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  1. enoch, Apr 19, 2005

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    Hi.

    My Help Viewer doesnt seem to work anymore. I had this on my old eMac, and the only common thing is that I have installed Dreamweaver on both. Does anyone know if Dreameaver eats the Help Viewer files for OS X?

    Safari and iTunes help files are okay. Do I have to strip away the Dreamweaver help files? How would I do that?
     
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  2. HexMonkey, Apr 19, 2005

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    There's a reasonably common bug in Help Viewer that can cause it to not display help and/or unexpectedly quit. This can be fixed by deleting the files and folders listed below. It may not be the same problem, but it's worth a go.

    • ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.help.plist
    • ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.helpui.plist
    • ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.helpviewer.plist
    • ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpui/
     
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  3. breadiu, Apr 19, 2005

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  4. enoch, Apr 20, 2005

    enoch thread starter macrumors member

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    ... damn you Flash!

    So, the answer is, it's not anything to do with my system, my helpfiles or even (remotely) my fault.

    It's Flash's dependancy on Opera for showing help files. This therefore breaks OS X help.

    Way to go Macromedia! Big up Flash!

    I'll sit here and be bitter for a while.
     
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  5. geese, Apr 20, 2005

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    Ah!, thats how you fix it! That has been annoying me for a very long time.

    That has got to be the most stupidest bit of application design since the Active Desktop on Windows ME.

    I hope Adobe severely beats the people responsible.
     
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  6. enoch, Apr 20, 2005

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    worst case scenario

    The worst case scenario is that Adobe keep macromedia's inept style of programming. Imagine if Photoshop had this effect on every system...
     
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  7. geese, Apr 20, 2005

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    Yes, but Adobe arent that stupid.

    I'd be happy if they just fixed the myrad of bugs in the Mac version of Flash to be honest.
     
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