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irvg · Post by **irvg** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:29 pm

I'm trying to install the latest demo on the Mac 10.5.8. It goes thru all the motions and indicates a successful install, but no files are actually written to the VST or Components directories.

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:10 am

irvg wrote:I'm trying to install the latest demo on the Mac 10.5.8. It goes thru all the motions and indicates a successful install, but no files are actually written to the VST or Components directories.

Maybe you are not running as "administrator" user? That might be it!

During installation, and during the "first" run, please run as "administrator"

irvg · Post by **irvg** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:02 am

I am running as admin and I haven't had this problem with any other installers.

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:28 am

irvg wrote:I am running as admin and I haven't had this problem with any other installers.

Well, I've tested the installer many times on my MacBook, and I havent ran into this problem either.

irvg · Post by **irvg** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:58 am

I found the files: they are all in the root directory of the hard drive, instead of the vst and component folders where they are supposed to be. When I tried opening them in Live, I got an error message that a log file couldn't be written. I also have no idea where the preset folders are supposed to go. This installer is definitely not working - maybe go back to a manual install while you're working out the bugs.

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:12 am

irvg wrote:I found the files: they are all in the root directory of the hard drive, instead of the vst and component folders where they are supposed to be. When I tried opening them in Live, I got an error message that a log file couldn't be written. I also have no idea where the preset folders are supposed to go. This installer is definitely not working - maybe go back to a manual install while you're working out the bugs.

I believe that's a bug with PackageMaker. I'll investigate it

irvg · Post by **irvg** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:50 am

Elsewhere in this forum, I found this regarding Packagemaker:
"Hi,
Package Maker (and Installer as well) is well known for being buggy and act in different way depending on what version of Mac OSX the user is running.

I encountered same kind of problem when I tried to change the install location of one package inside a meta package.
It worked fine on 10.6 but not on 10.5.

I don't know if you have the same problem but I found a workaround here.

Hope this helps

Best
Kevin
^
The link to the workaround is here:
http://homepage.mac.com/simx/technonova ... aller.html

Hope this helps. It definitely seems to be the problem. You are probably running 10.6 but I'm running 10.5

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:07 am

irvg wrote:You are probably running 10.6 but I'm running 10.5

Yes that's the case

irvg · Post by **irvg** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:38 pm

Any progress on resolving the issue?

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:59 am

irvg wrote:Any progress on resolving the issue?

Hi there,

Tonight I'm gonna change the installer on MacOSX, suggested by other folks. Hopefuly that'll resolve the issue.

irvg · Post by **irvg** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:07 pm

Is it up yet?

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:54 am

irvg wrote:Is it up yet?

No because I'l still working on other issues. Once I'm done with them, I'll update the MacOSX installer.

Gamma-UT · Post by **Gamma-UT** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:19 am

Hi Bulent.,

There may be another problem with PackageMaker. When installed on 10.6 with the latest version (although I vaguely remember something like this happening on an older version), the /Library/App Support/KV331/Synthmaster folder was inaccessible and threw up an error when scanned by Live because it couldn't write to the folder. (EDIT: just noticed that this did happen to the OP as well).

I looked at the permissions and they were screwy: no owner (I didn't know that was possible), group wheel(20) and I think the permission bits were 700. I set them to the usual root(0), admin(80), 755 combo by hand so I think it's sorted on this systems. But it might be useful to know when tracking down the fault in PackageMaker.

irvg · Post by **irvg** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 9:11 am

On 10.5 there was also an error writing to a log file, but that was probably because it wasn't installed in the right location (together with all the other files).

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:16 pm

Guys I will switch to this for the installer:

http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Iceberg.html

I'll need you guys as volunteers to test it out though, before releasing "final" release

Another thing I should probably do:

SynthMaster writes to the following files/folders:

Config\SynthMasterConfig.txt
Logs\SynthMasterLog.txt
Resources\UserWaveforms\WaveformCache
Resources\UserWaveforms\WavetableCache
Resources\FactoryWaveforms\WaveformCache
Resources\FactoryWaveforms\WavetableCache

It might be a wise idea to move then under <user home>\SynthMaster root, because the user will have write access there.

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