10.4.9 Finder loads then dies, over and over - help! (quick if u dont mind)

[nick mulder]

Hello,

I'm typing this on the PC partition of my intel mac here as I am unable to use OS X at the current time...

Anyhoo - so I opened an .hqx file at which at reaching about %80 uncompress my finder crashed and started loading and crashing and loading and crashing - constantly ...

I can open progs via the dock, but can only use the capability of the window UI and not the taskbar of the chosen application...

nothing 'finder-esque' works...

Upon opening up XP here and using macdrive it says my mac partition is kaput and is now read-only, I see a funky named file on the desktop "9_5©03^.__5K70_12i--) ..1_2____.macappl" - which wasn't there previously and I suspect is the output of the nasty .hqx - I cant delete the **** thing (its probably the source of my problems??) ...

resetting PRAM and disk-repair and file permissions repair via the install disks hasn't helped ...

I am afraid I'm going to have to kill the OS as I only have 2GB left on the mac partition at the current time ... which means XP also... ARRRRGH!

Any suggestions about how to fix this problem without re-install appreciated
(and no, the terminal isn't in my dock at the mo')

 

[nick mulder]

wowsa,

what an offensive little program that was

I got rid of it by going into Adobe Bridge which acted like a proxy finder and deleted it there - problem has gone away...

If anyone is interested in reverse engineering it I'll gladly email you the .hqx - it's like the cell phone in the Transformers movie

 

[MacHeadCase]

An .hqx file? There's a lot of chance this was an old old program as this was an OS 9 and earlier compression scheme so it's quite understandable it didn't work at all: Intel-based Macs are totally incompatible with OS 9 code (some apps, however, do work under SheepShaver).

Before downloading and installing programs, read the requirements: it will save you a lot of grief.

 

[nick mulder]

It had no requirements - as I understood it it was a MAX/MSP patch ... I wouldn't expect old OS9 and earler apps to make my finder barf like this though. And I didn't even open it, it starting puking at me at around %80 of the way through decompression.

Ah well - it's a neat party trick ...

 

[MacHeadCase]

Make your Finder barf? Old code is incompatible with Intel-based Macs, like I posted previously. It will not run under Rosetta either.

But I never saw that app before and, while it looks very recent - being Universal Binary and all, I have no clue why they chose to compress it in .hqx format. OS X native compression is .zip but it can also decompress other files.

 

[nick mulder]

It wasn't max/msp - it was a max/msp patch ...

Barf = throw up = do something unpleasant