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FxFactory .pkg seen as a Document and won’t install
For several days now I can’t install FxFactory because my Mac with Lion sees the install .pkg file as a Document [Kind: Document] and when I dbl-click on the .pkg file, textedit opens a file of gibberish. How do I fix this?
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9 Replies
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Re-download from Noise Industries.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group -
I have done that several times.
I redid it after rebooting the Mac and deleting prior downloads.
I used Safari to d/l the zip file from Noise Industries. Safari decompresses the zip file. No difference. I d/l a picture of the file the link below -
Left-click the file, and if available, set “Open with..Installer”.
rafael -
Not one of the options. ‘Open with …’ is but with what?
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Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app.
Open the Installer application and open from there the “.pkg”.
rafael -
Thanks Rafael. I was able to find folder CoreServices but there’s no ‘installer.app’ but a ‘install in progress.app’ and that one doesn’t open. I tied ‘open with ..’ but the ‘install in progress.app ‘is grayed out.
Mystery and misery continues
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What system are you using?
rafael -
I’m on a IMac 2.66 Ghz Intel Core i5 with 8GB Ram running 10.8.2
I was able to install FxFactory normally a few weeks ago and my OS hasn’t changed.I d/l a 3rd party installer pacifist.app and that was able to install the package.
However that took at least 10 times longer than what FxFactory would install it in.
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I re-installed ML and it restored my installer. Why it disappeared is a mystery. I’m glad pacifist app was available but it’s frustratingly slow.
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