[Elecraft] Mac K3 and P3 Utilities

[W4ATK]

David,

	 No problem. I was attempting a bit of humor.  I kept looking for the preferences after your posts the other day, but just today found your reply on another Q&A forum. Deleted the preferences files and everything came alive. It is strange that it occurs as often as it does. I have had the utility run for days and then unexpectedly up jumps the devil. I remember an app I wrote for a Forestry group a few years ago. Worked great and all of the sudden one day, it just started having trouble. That turned out to be a memory leak, from an object I did not release. The usage had gone up and crossed a threshold. Embarrassing but true.

	Actually I was discussing the repair permissions with Apple Care today and it is supposedly on effective on the OS and apps from Apple. So now I wonder how it worked for me. Must have done something. Who knows?

	As far as folder name changes, none here. and as far as I know the "help" is always in its default location. I am running the Beta release but I have a folder where I put that stuff and it is there all the time. 

	I have always said, there comes a time in software development when we programmers can "hear" a click. Everything falls into place. It may take a while sometimes but it will come. Programming is a science , Yes, but it is also an art form. Believe me you have not stepped on any toes where I am concerned. I found your responses to be quite friendly and certainly without any attempt to put one in his place.

	And if you still want the files, I will send the next one to you, unfortunately I did not keep the ones from today.

	73s and I hope to see you on the air sometimes and we can swap war stories.

Jim, W4ATK


On Aug 27, 2012, at 5:06 PM, David Fleming <dflem at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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>
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> 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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