i did a bad thing to quick time

I just got the update and all of a sudden a few shows I was used to watching were not watchable anymore.. instead I had a green screen for my trouble. After reading several posts on how to uninstall something, I dragged quicktime to the trash and all it's corresponding files into the trash. There seems to be a area in "systems preferences" that still has quicktime and can't be unistalled. So now when I try to reinstall my old copy of quicktime, the installation takes me right to the point where it asks to pick the hard drive and then tells me "a never version of this software is already installed". Can somebody help me uninstall this bad boy, so I can reinstall my older copy of quicktime?

-Removed all files via spotlight, deleted apps the only place left on my mac with "quicktime is in sys preferences." thx in advance guys this is gona be a tough one i think..

 

thx guys... i actually did nuke everything found in spotlight and i'm still getting the same error message..

 

THis is completely retarded.. I have tried to "uninstall" quicktime from my mac with no success for the past 2 and a half hours. I have done a spotlight search and even removed files from my hard drive that weren't actually detected with spotlight and still it's telling me i have a "newer" version..

is there a registry equivalent in macs?



Completely pissed off that i've wasted this much time on something so trivial. Please help.

Thx.

 

I think ITUNES has now also been damaged.. WTF is going on? Is this normal? You kill one app and the rest get killed also?

 

Damn.. I was hoping that wasn't the solution.. is there not a way to just reinstall those 2 apps without going to such extremes? And is reinstalling the OS similar to a windows box ? Just answer logically at the screens and it will install?

 

problem solved

A bit extreme in my opinion, but at least reinstalling the OS was pretty simple. A bit longer then I thought it would take, but pretty automated.. itunes and quicktime work once again.

thx for the help.

 

I'd hardly call quicktime a critical system app, nor any of it's associated components. It's an app. I use it to watch movies. WHy apple would embed quicktime within the OS is stupid. It seems pretty microsoft of them actually. They also have done that with IE and OE.

Anyway, I'm all better now, just had to respond to what was obviously a condescending post.

 

I did actually update to the new quicktime.. that's exactly what started this whole thread. I called Apple and they told me it was embedded in the OS... so when I tried to put the disc in to use the customizable feature it wasn't there..