What happened to Rosetta?

March 13, 2007 11:00 PM

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?

posted by bokane to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Best answer: There's a 10.4.9 build out that addresses Rosetta.
posted by phaedon at 11:09 PM on March 13, 2007

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.
posted by bottlebrushtree at 11:52 PM on March 13, 2007

Response by poster: 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.
posted by bokane at 12:52 AM on March 14, 2007