Thank you Rod D and Ronnie for you responses,
I wasn't given custom install option and didn't notice the top menu
bar, installed software,
panicked a bit when it my mpegs didn't play, saw Quicktime 7, erased
that - oops,
did a fresh install of Snow Leopard,
so it wasn't a clean install and wow they we were correct about
freeing 7Gb that must have set a new record for a software upgrade
minus 7Gb.
All is working now, my 4yr old son can watch his mpegs again.
and,
did anyone else read this on the 9 to 5 mac RSS feed:
'For those of you running Snow Leopard on newer Macs, you might be
disappointed to know that you are probably running in 32-bit mode.
And to check your system Software Overview - 64-bit Kernal and
Extensions : Yes or No '
Brian
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
On 30Aug2009, at 7:24 am, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Brian,
In Snow Leopard, System Preferences no longer has a QuickTime
preference pane, even if you install QuickTime Player 7.
One reason this might be of particular concern is that in Leopard,
this pane is where you would enter your registration code for
QuickTime Pro if you purchased it.
So, if you already had a QuickTime Pro license but performed an
Erase and Install (meaning the existing license may not be
automatically
detected and transferred during the upgrade), you might wonder how
you go about registering in order to reactivate your QuickTime Pro
features!
No worries: to do this, open QuickTime Player 7 (in /Applications/
Utilities) and then choose QuickTime Player 7 > Registration.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 29/08/2009, at 8:41 PM, Brian Risbey wrote:
thank you Bob, yes found them where you said they'd be,
fiddled about - nothing,
dragged onto desktop and let it reinstall, no change,
purchased new copy from apple and all fixed.
thank you again Bob for your assistance
Brian and his happier 4 year old son.
On 29/08/2009, at 7:06 PM, Robert Howells wrote:
On 29/08/2009, at 5:05 PM, Brian Risbey wrote:
error message - The Apple QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component is
not installed...
It was before I upgraded to 10.6.
If I opened Time Machine, where would I look?
Or do I need to repurchase it?
Brian
OK , so it was there before 10.6 upgrade ! ?
The actual component should still be there ..
try looking in Hard drive - Library - Receipts for
QuickTimeMpeg2.pkg
and in System - Library - Quicktime for QuickTimeMpeg2.component
If they are still in place it MIGHT be that 10.6 does not like them
I assume 10.6 Snow Leopard is compatible with your Mac !?
Bob
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