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Try opening the console...
Authored by: noworryz on Mar 11, '03 12:08:50PM

Open the console before you double-click and see if there is any information.

It's always worth trying the following: boot from the OS X Install CD, select "Open Disk Utility..." from the Installer menu, click on "Repair Disk Permissions" in the First Aid tab, and wait a half-hour or so. This often fixes system flakiness.

Also, if you double-click on an alias to a file/folder on an unmounted volume, the Finder often hangs. This has nothing to do with your application -- it is a system bug that has been around for a long time. The March security update seems to have reduced, but not eliminated, the problem.

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Try opening the console...
Authored by: mnewman on Jul 07, '03 11:38:47PM

Sorry to be posting so late on this hint and sorry that I'm not cleverer than I am, but:

This script did not work for me as written. It works OK if I remove the escaped quotes in the second line. It also works OK from the command line or as a drag-and-drop application if I leave the quotes unescaped. Here's what the console output looks like either way when I try to double click on a .dmg file:

/usr/bin/hdid: "/"/Users/mnewman/Desktop/PTHClock.app.dmg"" unrecognized: No such file or directory


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