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Problems extracting 3rd party externals

i.m.klif — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:49:53 +0000

When I try to extract OSX externals for MAX/MSP from http://
mmonoplayer.com/mspexternals.html , they extract as folders, not as
externals. I seem to remember there were some posts about this kind
of problems on cycling74 forums, but can’t find any related posts
right now.

Any advice or solution?

klif

Re: Problems extracting 3rd party externals

Wesley Smith — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:31:14 +0000

Are you using stuffit? I believe these problems crop up from stuffit
not handling how some other programs encode archives. Maybe try
another unarchiver or use the command line tools.

best,
wes

Re: Problems extracting 3rd party externals

Mark Pauley — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:09:57 +0000

If you are dealing with .mxo plugins from a mac that does not have max/
msp installed (i.e if you are working with a stand alone or the
runtime) then it’s a crapshoot. Nothing registers the .mxo type with
LaunchServices unless you actually run the installer it seems, and you
need the Max frameworks on the system in order to actually load the
suckers.

_Mark

Re: Problems extracting 3rd party externals

roger.carruthers — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:53:30 +0000

I have two machines – a G4 500 and a G4 867 – both running, identical software & OS versions and with Max/MSP installed (of course!).
One downloads these externals and unzips them, no problem, the other only sees them as folders no matter what i use to unzip them (and i tried all i could find on Versiontracker).
I can only suggest, therefore, that you try to download them on someone else’s machine.
Btw, does anyone know how to stop Safari from automatically unzipping files ?
cheers
roger

Re: Problems extracting 3rd party externals

Dan Nigrin — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:05:16 +0000

> Btw, does anyone know how to stop Safari from automatically unzipping files ?
>cheers
>roger

Preferences/General, uncheck “Open ‘safe’ files after downloading”.

Dan
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Dan Nigrin
Defective Records
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http://www.defectiverecords.com

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Re: Problems extracting 3rd party externals

Wesley Smith — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:12:15 +0000

> Btw, does anyone know how to stop Safari from automatically unzipping files ?

Use Firefox.

wes

Re: Problems extracting 3rd party externals

i.m.klif — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:57:32 +0000

On Apr 11, 2006, at 9:53 PM, roger.carruthers wrote:

>
> I have two machines – a G4 500 and a G4 867 – both running,
> identical software & OS versions and with Max/MSP installed (of
> course!).
> One downloads these externals and unzips them, no problem, the
> other only sees them as folders no matter what i use to unzip them
> (and i tried all i could find on Versiontracker).
> I can only suggest, therefore, that you try to download them on
> someone else’s machine.

indeed, i tried the same downloaded zips on other machine, and it
worked as it should…. well. now i know :)

> Btw, does anyone know how to stop Safari from automatically
> unzipping files ?
> cheers
> roger

you can disable “open safe files after downloading” in Safari
preferences.

klif

Re: Problems extracting 3rd party externals

roger.carruthers — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:22:14 +0000

I managed to download and open these files on my machine at home ( a G4 500, running OS 10.4.6 and Max/MSP 4.5.7) but when I try to transfer them to my work machine ( a G4 876, same OS & software versions) I still get the same problem, ie. They just appear as folders, rather than Max externals.
I tried drag n’ dropping them onto FileInfo to change the file type, but I get the following error message ?AppleScript Error: can?t make current application into type < >. (-1700)
mean anything to anyone ?
cheers
Roger
(and thanks for the Safari tip)

Re: Problems extracting 3rd party externals

Drsbaitso — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:48:27 +0000

I hate to sound like a jaded monkey, but this question has nothing to do with maxmsp and shouldn’t be posted in this forum. Go to like, a stuffit forum or something, …man.

Re: Problems extracting 3rd party externals

roger.carruthers — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:46:08 +0000

Really ? Having problems with 3rd party externals not a Max problem ? Funny thing, I ‘mailed the developer of these externals and he said he had been following the thread and was interested to see what came of it – wasn’t it you that was just posting about such “hero’s”..?
If you read the last post you might see that it’s nothing to do with Stuffit – I extracted the files succesfully on one machine but they wont work on another machine. I would have thought that such things would be of interest to developers and users alike ?
I’m with you on the stupid questions thing, but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water,eh?
cheers
Roger

Re: Problems extracting 3rd party externals

jasch — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:59:59 +0000

do you have SubEthaEdit installed on the offending machine?
there’s a mapping of the suffix .mxo to something else in that app’s
plist somewhere that screws up the mapping of mach-o externals as
bundles.
just a thought…

/*j

Re: Problems extracting 3rd party externals

grg — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:08:02 +0000

Hi Roger,

there has been a problem some time ago where Mach-O externals would
show up as folders when you had subethaedit installed on the system. No
idea if this is still the case but the only solution was deleting it
afaik.

cheers, g.

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