[Elecraft] Mac K3 and P3 Utilities

[David Fleming]

Hi Jim,

My apologies if I came across as chastising. It certainly was not my intent. It's just that in my experience, repairing permissions has not solved the problem. It is *usually* not related to permissions at all. If you do get a crash that is solved by repairing permissions, and it happens often, then something serious is going on with your hard drive. I can't remember the last time I had to repair permissions for any reason, and I've been using Macs for as long as there has been Macs. Repairing permissions has become increasingly less necessary since Panther (10.3) was released.

The problem with the Elecraft Utilities usually occurs when the firmware folder's name has been changed, or it has been deleted, since the last time the Utility was ran. This can happen, for example, when someone creates a temporary firmware folder to store the beta firmware for download. Once the beta firmware has been loaded, the user no longer needs this temporary folder and will delete it. Then when the Utility runs again, it looks for that deleted folder and when it can't find it, it causes a crash. There are also other situations that can cause problems, such as not having the Help folder in the same location as the app file. There will be new Cocoa versions of all the Utilities released soon that will address this problem. A new version of the KX3 Utility, which addresses these problems, has already been released.

Again, I didn't mean to step on any toes.

David, W4SMT




----- Original Message -----
From: W4ATK <w4atk at bellsouth.net>
To: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 5:25 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Mac K3 and P3 Utilities

I often get the following error message which is fatal. "An exception of class NilObjectException was not handled. The application must shut down".
Downloading new copies of the apps does not help. 
I suggested  a "Repair Permissions" execution and was "chastised" <BIG GRIN> by the author of the utilities, but it has worked for me in the past although somewhat time consuming.
So today I am posting the question. what is the remedy? 

73s Jim, W4ATK


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