l need to download LW 4.16 or maybe 4,16.1 or .2

chante.00 · #11 (**permalink**) July 23rd, 2008

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Originally Posted by Lord of the Rings

Try LW 4.8.1 as suggested in PM. I have a suspicion the problem is related to the method in how you installed Leopard OSX 10.5.

Yes, same.

You might have to end up reinstalling Leopard, which is not as painful as it sounds really. Only painful part is doing the updates.

Also, do you have any partitions or 2nd drives on your computer?

No, only an external hard drive. What description of item would l give to Amazon for a 2nd) drive? But l don't want anything to invalidate AppleCare which has paid for a send-in repair (display,some wiring + 2 batterys) + 2 keyboards(do-it-yourself, easy on a iBook, not so on a MacBook).

Do you mean a normal reinstall? Thank you for all the care + attention!

chante.00 · #12 (**permalink**) July 23rd, 2008

Same thing happened- WHY was l able to download 2 songs wirh the newest version the 1st time l launched LW- and never again. lt did work on THIS machine. And with this Leopard OSX.

chante.00 · #13 (**permalink**) July 23rd, 2008

We must love music (and more...) to go on with this! The newest version shows the search bar for 10 seconds before it quits- also it is the only version that stays in the dock, after control-clicking, of course + selecting 'keep in dock'.

l will reinstall Mac OSX Leopard if you really strongly think it needs to be done.

lhave grown to have a lot of respect for you during my trip through Gnutella!

Lord of the Rings · #14 (**permalink**) July 24th, 2008

Should not need to delete anything if do an Archive Install. All it does is install the new system folder, copy all or almost all preferences & support files from the old system folder to the new one. So after installing, you can then delete the old system folder (which will take up perhaps 10-20 GB.) But double-check your old personal account folder first just to be sure everything was copied to the new one.

You should repair permissions however after doing this.

This is the best alternative I can think of. Otherwise LW will simply not run on your machine. There may be other problems your computer has you don't realise.

Downside of doing this: Some applications such as final cut pro might need to be re-serialised. But most apps should be fine. You will need to download the update packages for OSX after reinstalling the system. However, Mac packages all the system updates into a single installer, inclusive of all other updates so no need to download separate 10.5.2 & 10.5.3, etc. updates.

* Oh .. when doing the Archive Install, click the options button to be sure you are installing only what you wish to install. You can uncheck most of the language packages for example to save hard disk space.

Happy to help where I can.