[27] in installers
Re: Eudora Pro 3.0.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott McGuire)
Fri Mar 7 16:30:04 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03020900af46083ec0f2@[18.81.0.167]>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 16:29:41 -0500
To: installers@MIT.EDU
From: Scott McGuire <smcguire@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>
Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU> reports:
>New problem.
>I let the installation finish by clicking on delete. My machine rebooted.
>I went to my alias in my Apple Menu Items, which is an alias to my settings
>file, because I do have Eudora set up for multiple users on my machine.
>
>It told me that the application Eudora Pro could not be opened because it
>was in the trash. I went to the trash, and found:
>Eggroll2 -> Trash -> Rescued items from Eggroll2 -> Eudora Pro
>(application program) I did "Get Info" on it, and discovered it to be
>version 3.0.2.
>
>I did a find file on Eudora Pro and found 5 copies of the application program.
>The one I just listed,
>Eggroll2 -> Eudora for MITv 0.9 folder -> Eudora Folder Old -> Eudora Pro
>-> Eudora Pro (v 3.0.2)
>Eggroll2 -> Eudora for MITv 0.9 folder -> Eudora Pro (v 2.1.4)
>Eggroll -> Network Apps -> Eudora Pro 3.0 Folder -> Eudora Pro 3.0 (v 3.0)
>(and one on a wonton backup)
>
>Then I tried to use my alias in my Apple Menu Items again, and this time
>it openned Eudora, it opened version 3.0.
>(In the past it always opened a 2.1.4 version of Eudora)
>
>Should there be some information in the README of the installer about
>*where* to install Eudora to if you already have Eudora on your computer?
The problem here isn't *where* Eudora was installed. The problem is that
you have multiple copies of the same version of Eudora on your system.
When you open a file, and there are multiple versions of the application
that created that file, the Mac OS will open the copy of the application
with the latest version. However, if there are several copies of the same
version of an application, it randomly chooses which one of them it's going
to open.
If a user has Eudora 2 and then installs Eudora 3 on their hard drive,
Eudora 3 will always be the preferred choice. However, if you have
multiple versions of Eudora 3 (and versions 3.0 and 3.0.2 may count as "the
same"), you don't know which one is going to open. Even if there's a copy
of the application in the same folder as the document you're opening, that
might not be the one that gets opened.
I have about 5 copies of the Eudora app on my drive (because I'm making the
installers), so I have to always drag my settings file to an alias of the
"right" copy of the app to be safe.
So, there is no place we could install (or tell users to install) the new
copy of Eudora that could be guaranteed that it would launch the "correct"
Eudora application from a settings file, if they already have a copy of
Eudora 3 on the their system.
>Any ideas? I'm sure I can get this straightened out myself, but if this
>happenned to a client, it would not be fun to deal with.
Have 'em search for copies of the Eudora apps and get rid of the extras.
--Scott G. McGuire / smcguire@mit.edu
