Thanks for taking pitty on my plight. Here are the results of my checks.
Matthias wrote: >Please check the following things: > >1. Start Scribus and do not create or open a new document (press >"cancel" in the new document dialogue box) so you get access to all >the preferences. > >2. Check the following preferences. Does anything point to a path >beyond your local disk? > > - General / Paths: Documents, ICC Profiles, Scripts, Document Templates Documents = /Users/john/ ICC Profiles, Scripts, Document Templates are all empty. > - Fonts / Additional Path All fonts are in /Library and /System. Additional Paths is empty. > - External Tools (does any executable name or the external editor >point to another drive?) Postscript Interpreter is /usr/local/bin/gs Image Processing Tool is gimp Web Browser and External Editor are blank > - Scripter (check the script path) Startup Script is blank as are all of the buttons in the Console tab. >3. If everything seems to be o.k., please check the location of all >the folders and files specified in the preferences on your local >hard disk. May be one of them is just an alias to an external drive. >If Scribus tries to access such a file or folder alias, the Mac >would automatically ask you to log into that drive. I'm not sure what you mean here. I've checked the other panes in the Scribus preferences and the only other paths I found were in the Plugins pane. Those paths were all in /Applications. Do you mean preferences of other applications? I have not checked them all, but this all started happening the other day when I downloaded 1.3.5.1. Before that, I don't think it was happening with 1.3.5rc3, but I might not have noticed it. >4. Look inside your user's home folder. Inside this one you will >find the folder path Library/Preferences/Scribus. Here you find all >the preference files. You may open them with any text editor (e.g. >the free TextWrangler is an excellent choice). Check if you can find >any external file path inside these files. There are quite a few files in there and I don't have much time this morning, so I just trashed the entire Scribus folder, taking care to empty the trash. I then opened Scribus, both 1.3.5rc3 and 1.3.5.1, independently. In both cases, the other computer's main hard drive appeared on my desktop. >5. Is one of your fonts just an alias to an external disk? (This >would result in problems with other Mac programs too, so this is not >very likely. That seems unlikely, but I guess anything is possible. I don't have time to check that right now, but I do know that I don't have any problem running this computer completely disconnected from all networks when I travel. At that point, the other computer would be unavailable and so should, as you say, cause problems with other applications. I'll try to look into this idea tomorrow. Best, John
