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10.5: Quicken Scheduler breaks Front Row Apps
I was going to put this in an older hint's comments that dealt with compatibility issues with the Quicken Scheduler, but I thought that now that Front Row is ubiquitous in 10.5, that maybe this deserved its own hint so people would see it.

If you have any scheduled updates in Quicken 2007 (also Quicken 2006, not sure if it was a problem in prior versions), Quicken runs a background process. As noted by the old hint, this process causes various text expansion utilities to break. As it turns out, it also breaks Front Row, which now is installed with every copy of OS X 10.5. When the Quicken Scheduler background process is running, you can launch Front Row with Command-Esc, but then you are stuck there, unable to do anything. No keys work at all after that, not even force quit. I was forced to hard shutdown my machine and reboot to recover.

The fix is to remove all scheduled updates in Quicken, thus causing the background process to be disabled. One can only hope that Intuit will finally fix this in Quicken 2008.
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10.5: Quicken Scheduler breaks Front Row
Authored by: ahancock on Nov 13, '07 07:40:55PM

oh, this happened to me today also... however I was able to break out of it with a force-quit keystroke... eventually.


time to disable that Command Escape keystroke in my system preferences..



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10.5: Quicken Scheduler breaks Front Row
Authored by: dstewart on Nov 14, '07 05:28:37AM

My experience is a bit different. I do have Quicken Updates in background. I launched Front Row just to see what I could do with it on my remote-less G5. Front Row does launch, but doesn't do anything--doesn't work with the keyboard at all, or the mouse. Also doesn't quit with Command-Q.

However, it did quit with Command-Option-Esc. No Force Quit dialog; Front Row just quits.

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David



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10.5: Quicken Scheduler breaks 4D too
Authored by: dan55304 on Nov 14, '07 07:08:52AM

I had to remove Quicken Scheduler from 10.4 as it kills the option key modifier 4th Dimension.



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10.5: Quicken Scheduler breaks Front Row
Authored by: ahancock on Apr 06, '08 07:29:32AM

And, Quicken Scheduler breaks Option - Dragging in Filemaker, and prevents me from Command Clicking on the date in Lightspeed to change the date.



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