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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 05 2009 - 09:48:37 CDT

On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 15:40 +0100, Dan Lussier wrote:
> I am attempting to use the 1.8.6 version.

i am not a mac expert, but i am certain it would help,
if you could try out one of the recent alpha builds and
report if you get the same message.

> When I attempt to open the disk image I get the following.
>
> "The disk image you are opening may be damaged and could damage your
> system. Are you sure you want to open this disk image?"
>
> If I go ahead and mount the disk image after attempting to repair it

i'd suspect that the "repair" is actually doing more damage than
it will help. many, many people have downloaded and installed the
1.8.6 mac binaries and had no problem installing it, so there has
to be something different on your machine or in the way how you
perform that installation that triggers this behavior.

>
> through Disk Utility and then pull the VMD app bundle to my
> Applications directory it appears to be working today (app starts and
> can run simple examples).
>
> Yesterday when I sent my original email to the list this wasn't the
> case and the app wouldn't run. I don't know how to explain this,
> which definitely raises the chances that my configuration is at fault.
>
> That being said - I wanted to flag up the warning coming from the disk
> image mounting process in case other OS X VMD users are seeing the
> same thing.

for exactly that reason it would be useful to know, if this is
carries over to the alpha builds.

cheers,
   axel.

> Dan
>
> On 5-Apr-09, at 3:05 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 09:02 +0100, Dan Lussier wrote:
> >> I just wanted to flag up a potential problem with the OS X intel
> >> binary of the most up to date version of VMD.
> >
> > dan,
> >
> > please be a little bit more precise. are you talking about the
> > release version 1.8.6 or one of the alpha test versions?
> >
> >
> >> I have tried downloading it a couple of times without success.
> >> When I
> >
> > well, if you do the identical (=correct) steps, a computer should
> > produce identical results. so repeating the same thing without
> > modifications _should_ produce the same result. ;)
> >
> >> try to mount the disk image I get an error warning that there is a
> >> problem and then once the disk image is mounted the app simply
> >> doesn't
> >
> > well, _what_ is the problem that is being reported.
> >
> >> run. If I try mounting and re-mounting the same disk image a second
> >
> > the installation instructions say that you have to drag and
> > drop the application to an appropriate location. did you do that?
> >
> >>
> >> time I get an error ("Incorrect codec" ) and can't even get it to
> >> mount.
> >
> > hmm... that looks more like there is something misconfigured in your
> > machine rather than
> >
> >> I only have a single Mac here so I can't try it on another machine
> >> but
> >> my hardware specs are fairly typical (if it is significant to the
> >> problem):
> >
> > it is very unlikely that it is a hardware problem, but rather
> > something
> > on the software side. whether this is pertaining to VMD or your setup,
> > that is very hard to determine.
> >
> > cheers,
> > axel.
> >
> >> MacBook Pro
> >> 2 GB RAM
> >> 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo
> >> OS X 10.5.6 fully updated
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Dan
> >
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> > idiot.
> > 

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Axel Kohlmeyer   akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu   http://www.cmm.upenn.edu
   Center for Molecular Modeling   --   University of Pennsylvania
Department of Chemistry, 231 S.34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
tel: 1-215-898-1582,  fax: 1-215-573-6233,  office-tel: 1-215-898-5425
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If you make something idiot-proof, the universe creates a better idiot.