wow i have no idea but wow that's kind of weird t hat it did that. i
didn't download that program because i heardd microsoft wasn't going
to support it. i did find that vlc will play windows media files. i
wanted to use flip for mac but it isn't supported for intel macs that
i know of. wish i could help more.
On Jul 3, 2006, at 9:59 PM, Holly Anderson wrote:
I downloaded windows media player 9.0. I realized it was a .bin
file and the mac seemed not to know what to do with those, so I
decided I would download and try to install stuff it expander.
Imphasis on the word try to install. I installed stuff-it expander
with no problems, but when I tried to click on the windows
media.bin installer it crashed voice over. VO kept saying finder
busy. I finally tried closing down and restarting voice over. But
Voice over wouldn't start. I do have 2 other accounts created for
just this purpose, but I couldn't access my damaged account's files
with the other accounts to delete those 2 plist files. It kept
saing access denied. I couldn't log in as root either it kept
asking for a password and I couldn't figure out what password it
wanted. I thought I'd seen someone on list mention that the
password was blank, but it didn't seem to want that either.
Finally I had someone sighted get me to the terminal in the damaged
account and I deleted the 2 plist files and restarted. Voice over
came up as hoped.
I tried opening the .bin file again just to make sure it wasn't a
fluke that it crashed. Right whenit startedsaying finder busy I
shut down voice over. This time I could bring it up again. But I
don't know what to do. I'd like to be able to install windows
media player. Is this just not possible, or is there something I'm
missing.
Thanks.
Holly who is very relieved she was able to at least fix the problem.
