10.4: A possible easy fix for non-running applications

Jun 08, '05 08:46:00AM

Contributed by: timrand

Tiger only hintAfter installing System 10.4, I found that a few applications failed to run. The most notable app was Photoshop 7.0. When clicked, it launched Script Edit, not Photoshop, and the icon was all wrong.

Clearly the package wasn't being seen as an application. I tried to change the "Open With..." settings, and that helped, but it still gave me an error message every launch. Then I stumbled upon this thought. Make the application package (a directory actually) an .app directory by renaming it (i.e. making sure that .app was the extension). Upon issuing the rename, Finder warned me that I was changing the type from .0 to .APP, and this was a solid clue now.

After changing it, Photoshop worked the way I expected and things were fixed. I found a few other applications that had a version number as the final characters of the file name. For those that wouldn't launch, renaming the app to ".APP" solved the problem.

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