The worst app install in which I was ever involved.

[Stinky The Clown]

Last edited Sat Feb 25, 2012, 06:23 PM - Edit history (1)

My son is back in school, as a nursing student. He wanted to install a study guide that was on disk. It said the media was for PC and Mac. It mentioned Windows 7 and OS X 10.4 or higher. The Mac version is "Universal," not Power PC or Intel.

The total install was about 229 MB. It crashed twice on his less-than-1-year-old MBPro running Snow Leopard. Each crash was after 30 minutes of the slowest install I ever saw. We tried in on my even newer MBPro and on Sparkly's older MBPro. All with the same results. We are now well over two hours into this mess. I finally try it on my nearly four year old Mac Pro (Double Quad Core Xeon and 14 GB Ram running Snow Leopard). In less than 10 minutes it was installed.

I copied the app from my Applications Folder to his desktop and then to his Applications folder.

It runs fine.

I never encountered a more difficult app to install. Have you?

Also, as a "Universal" app, will it run under Lion?




edit to change 229 GB to 229 MB

[Renew Deal]

1. A 229GB install seems impossible

Are you sure it wasn't 229MB?

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Yes, MB not GB

I'm stupid

[Stinky The Clown]

4. It was 229 MB, not GB

As for looping, what I can say is the drive kept spooling up for a few seconds then slowing. Then spooling up, then slowing. Over and over.

Also, the progress bar move in huge chunks, not slowly and steadily. 16.2 MB . . . . . 48.6 MB . . . . . 97.8 MB . . . . . etc.

[REP]

5. Lion will not run PPC apps; since this is says 10.4 and above, it will may run

Tiger was the first version of OS X built to run on the Intel chip set.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Isn't a "Universal" app one this is neutral and will run on both Intel and PPC without . . . . .

. . . . (whatever you actually call it) some sort of OS translator/emulator/imitator?

I think I read that Universal apps will run on Lion. This shows in the software section of his system profiler as being Universal, not PPC.

[emulatorloo]

8. Probably some shitty third party "custom installer program"

In other words, Windows on the Mac.

Rather than the bog standard Apple app installer.