On 12/30/2004 at 11:01 AM, I wrote: >I've just upgraded a user from an eMac to a new iMac, and everything >seems to have gone smoothly except that he is now unable to launch >PowerMail, which crashes before it gets anywhere. I've tried holding >down Command-Option, but PM doesn't get far enough to even read that, and >still crashes. He was originally using the final release of 5.01; I then >tried v5.1 4341 and 4328, neither of which improved matters. I get the >same results whether logged in as the user, or as the administrator.
The problem, in this case, was not the Application Support privileges, but a problem with StuffIt Expander, which initializes when PM starts up. Reinstalling that app solved the problem. Thanks to Jérôme for checking out my crash log and working this out for me. z
