DON’T install QT 7.4 if you use after effects

[Brian Mclean]

Read below dude:

I have fixed the error! horray.
I have downgraded my Quicktime back to 7.3.1 by reading the following pages:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1347251&tstart=0

https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/

Panther: https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime731forpanther.html
Tiger: https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime731fortiger.html
Leopard: https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime731forleopard.html

Install with Pacifist and select the Quicktime .pkg file
https://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12743

[Matthew Giffin]

The problem is with the new Quicktime upgrade to 7.4. You have to get rid of 7.4, and get back to 7.3. Here’s an easy way to do it:

Get Pacifist. Download and install that app. It allows you to downgrade apps without having to re-install the whole damn OS.

Once you’ve got Pacifist, re-download QT 7.3. Open Pacifist and instruct it to open the 7.3 package. Follow the prompts, reinstall the whole damn thing. Takes about 10 minutes.

This works, I’m back in business. By the way, I have spent more time monkeying with problems like this one in the past two months than in the previous several years of using Apple computers. The new OS was a nightmare, cost me several days and a few hundred bucks to get rid of that one. Now this.

Maybe Apple should spend less time negotiating with The Beatles lawyers and more on getting things to work!

[David Gudelius]

Exactly, couldn’t have said it better.

[Dave Fraser]

hey guys,

just wondering if there’s another to fix this problem because for some reason this fix isn’t working for me. i’ve downloaded and installed pacifist, downloaded qt 7.3.1 and opened the package file in pacifist and followed the instructions, choosing to replace when prompted, but i still can’t render. really REALLY irritating now.
any suggestions?

cheers guys

Dave Fraser
Motion Graphics Artist
Big Button Media LTD
http://www.bigbutton.tv

[David Gudelius]

Maybe you should try to remove anything called “Quicktime” from your system and library… be really carfeul with that, but so did I. Then I restarted, gone the way with Pacifist, restarted again and it worked. Maybe you should check and repair all permissions before that… I don’t know, you got to try.
Maybe you should do this operation several times until it works…
but remember, be careful with deleting Quicktime-component files in your system and library.

[Dave Fraser]

ooooh, fun fun fun. ok suppose it’s worth a try, thanks a lot, i’ll let you know it goes. Probably won’t be today though.

Dave Fraser
Motion Graphics Artist
Big Button Media LTD
http://www.bigbutton.tv

[Nico Jones]

Hello there,

David, when you say ‘be really careful doing this’, what exactly do you mean? I’m having the same problem and don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater and destroy my system…

Thanks,

Nico

Nico J BB

[David Gudelius]

“Being carefully” simply means, that Quicktime is an immanent component of the whole OS.

All that I can say is that I my case, I really deleted everything with “Quicktime” in its name, and I rebooted successfully after that. 🙂

So I can’t give a guarantee that other people with other systems or apps installed are able to reboot proper, too.

On the other hand: I risked deleting everything dealing with quicktime, having in mind that I had to set up a new system in the worst case, and it worked.

Once again: I can’t give a guarantee, but I think that you have to try it before you set up a completely new system.

[Nico Jones]

Cool, thanks for the help sir!

Nico J BB

[David Gudelius]

Denada,
but I didn’t anything to solve the problem… all credits go to the guys above. 🙂

As I read in a german Mac-News portal, Apple and Adobe are currently working on this issue.

I guess some of us bombed them with bugreports. ^^