Comments on: What happened to Rosetta?

Question: What happened to Rosetta?

bokane — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:00:00 -0800

What happened to Rosetta on my OS X 10.4.8 system? It stopped working all of a sudden...

I haven't installed anything recently other than XCode and a Microsoft Word update. I don't know if either of these had anything to do with it; all that I know is that neither installer had a checkbox that said "Yes, please made a third of the apps I depend on stop working." A glance at Apple's discussion forums suggests that I might have to reinstall the OS; it would be ever so nice if this weren't the case.

Has anybody had a similar experience? Is there some hidden system preference somewhere that I need to chance, or is reinstallation really my only option?

By: phaedon

phaedon — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:09:13 -0800

There's a 10.4.9 build out that addresses Rosetta.

By: bottlebrushtree

bottlebrushtree — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:52:35 -0800

Have you run any utilities that promised to remove foreign langauges and similar "unused" items from MacOS? I've read that some of them are a little over-enthusiastic and can kill Rosetta as a side effect.

By: bokane

bokane — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:52:57 -0800

bottlebrushtree -- nope. I'm a translator, so I depend on certain of those foreign languages (specifically, Chinese, which along with Japanese and Korean seems to be the big target of those apps).

phaedon -- Yup, that did it. Serves me right -- I checked last night, and I was all current with updates; this took care of it. Thanks a lot.

I'm still curious as to what on earth happened in the first place, though.