BEWARE OS X.6.8 Security Update 2012-001 -- it kills Rosetta

[greenmorpher]

From the Dartmouth forum:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57 ... ty-update/

From the Wizaerd's Canvas forum:

"Security update breaks powerpc apps using Rosetta..."

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/03/sno ... g-rosetta/

http://9to5mac.com/2012/02/03/latest-ap ... e-quicken/

Also from the Wiz's forum:

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My coworkers and I issued a fix here:

Rosetta Issue after Security Update 2012-001.
I make no guarantees for everyone, but hope that it helps those who are experiencing issues. It replaces the ImageIO.Framework with a working copy from a machine from before the Security Update.

http://www.educate-it.org/content.php?1 ... e-2012-001

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I tried the fix but it didn't work for me. Fortunately, I was able to wipe my OS and Apps partition and restore from a back-up I made as recently as Tuesday, so I didn't lose anything significant. Since running Rosetta is a key factor in OS X.6.x, presumably Apple will come up with a fix pretty quickly. They’ll lose a lot of trust if they don't! (We still have strust in them? )

Cheers, geoff

Geoffrey Heard
The Ad-Doctor-Online
http://www.ad-doctor-online.com

[greenmorpher]

FIXED! Apple has put out update 2012-001 v.1.1 -- but without admitting they totally stuffed up in the first version. How nice. Lots of people appear to have issues with X.7.3 too.

Cheers, geoff

[Jester]

I guess Apple screws up most of the time; thanks for posting.

[Groucho]

Thanks for warning, Geoff.
By the way, somewhere between 10.6.x and 10.6.8 Apple killed show glyph from the Special Characters utility (Edit>Special Characters…). You/I can no longer select a font and see what glyphs it contains. PopChar’s bribery?

Henry.

[greenmorpher]

Didn’t notice that, Henry.

And Apple still hasn't come out with a decent type menu/manager. After 25 years (and stopped counting)!

Cheers, geoff