Standalone won't launch under OSX

[Scott Rossi]

Recently, "Howard Bornstein"  wrote:

> I've had several reports of a variety of my OSX standalone apps not
> launching. The reports say that the expanding rectangles appear when
> the application starts to launch, but the app never actually launches.
> These are apps that launch properly on most systems, but occasionally,
> I get the report that the app won't launch.
> 
> This has been reported in OS X 10.2.8 and 10.3. Does anyone have an
> idea what would cause a standalone app to start to launch but then
> never complete launching? Has anyone seen this or can you suggest what
> might be going on?

This is probably a Stuffit issue.  I experienced it myself with two apps
from a game developer and their was response was to grab the latest (8.02 I
believe) version of Stuffit.  Apparently there was some problem in earlier
8.x versions that resulted in this non-opening phenomenon.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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