Apple updates released: Authoring Support; Disk First Aid; DVD Player Troubleshooting issues noted
Apple updates released: Authoring Support; Disk First Aid; DVD Player Troubleshooting issues noted
Disk First Aid 8.6.1 is now available on the web (we reported it as available via Software Update yesterday).
- Repairs, instead of just identifying, certain types of master directory block damage on Mac OS Extended format volumes.
- Improves the compatibility of Mac OS Extended format hard disks with Mac OS X.
- Can repair more problems when checking the startup drive than could the previous version (although starting from a different disk is still recommended).
Here's what's new:
Download/install problem? A couple of reader report problems downloading the stand-alone Installer. You may get a message such as: "Minor damage exists in the Alt. Vol. info of DTA. Rebuild the directory with DiskWarrior ASAP. (-57,1)." John Porter found that the problem went away when DiskWarrior Extension was disabled.
Update: Koyo Yuki replies: "I had the same (-57, 1) problem on my computer with DiskWarrior's DiskShield option on. But I realized that it only occurs when the .smi file is opened with ShrinkWrap instead of Disk Copy."
Update: "ShrinkWrap Engine" download error explained! Joe Muscara (of Alsoft) supplies these additional details:
There is nothing actually wrong with the disk image. The error message only occurs when the image is mounted with Aladdin's ShrinkWrap. This is due to an error in the way the ShrinkWrap driver is handling the disk image. The disk image is a pure HFS Plus read-only compressed image. Some blocks of the disk image are not being properly decompressed by the driver. This results in some blocks being returned from the driver with raw compressed data which appears to be garbage. This causes multiple problems with the image. Five of the seven files in the image are unreadable or appear to contain garbage.
DiskShield properly detects these problems and warns with the error message. If you were to run Disk First Aid on the mounted image it would indicate that the image is "not an HFS disk." The way to use the image is to unmount it and simply double-click on the image file. Since it is a self-mounting image it will be mounted with the Disk Copy driver. The Disk Copy driver will return all of the blocks with the proper decompressed data.
The image is being mounted with the ShrinkWrap driver by StuffIt Expander. The image file is stored on the Apple Software Updates site in ".bin" format. StuffIt Expander is being opened automatically by the web browser to decode the image file after it is downloaded. StuffIt Expander has a default preference to mount disk images with "ShrinkWrap Technology." We have alerted Aladdin about this problem with ShrinkWrap.
Update: We got the same "ShrinkWrap Engine reported an error" message when downloading DVD Player 2.4 today. We have DiskWarrior installed. Alsoft's solution worked!
Apple DVD Player 2.4 is an update to this application. Apple states it requires Mac OS 9.1, QuickTime 4.1 (or later presumably), a previously installed version of Apple DVD Player 2.x, and iMac DV (Slot Loading), Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics), or PowerBook (FireWire). See also TIL article 26201.
What about 2.5.x? Several readers note that DVD Player 2.5 or 2.5.1 is already shipping with the latest Mac models (see previous item) and query why Apple is thus now releasing 2.4?
Richard Outerbridge adds: "DVD Player 2.5 refuses to launch if it detects a debugger (in my case, MacsBug). A quit box comes up that says: 'Apple DVD Player will not run with a debugger installed. Remove the debugger and restart the computer. (304).' DVDP will launch after I move MacsBug (6.6.3) out of the System Folder and restart." [Note: Actually, this "conflict" has been a long standing one (see item from 1999). DVD Player Helper can work-around this "glitch." Actually, we suspect (and others concur) this is an intentional feature designed to prevent any chance of users illegally copying images from the movie.]
Install problem? David Kanter reports that, when he tried to install this on a PBG3/500 (FireWire) running Mac OS 9.1, he got a message that said "Apple DVD Player 2.4 cannot be installed onto this machine." Several readers have confirmed getting a similar message - on Pismo PowerBooks.
Update: the solution: John Nabelek may have the solution: "I had to insert DVD drive into the expansion bay for the installer to work." Edward Floden confirms this solves the problem.