[TxMt] Fugu 1.1.1rc1

Eric Ocean subscriber at ampede.com
Thu Dec 9 02:31:56 UTC 2004


On Dec 8, 2004, at 6:17 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On Dec 9, 2004, at 2:24, Lief Stryder wrote:
>
>> Nope, still no TextMate. And no useful console messages.
>
> Okay, you may also try to delete (requires admin privileges):
>    /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.*
>
> You should restart afterwards, then do the thing about locating 
> TextMate in Finder and starting it, and then start Fugu.
>
> Unfortunately I haven't got real insight into how Launch Services 
> work, but I have experienced similar things with applications not 
> being found by Finder for file type associations or the open shell 
> command not finding certain apps -- it does seem to happen when 
> applications gets replaced "often" (as would be the case for 
> TextMate).

IIRC, there's a way to inform LaunchServices that the database needs to 
be updated, and with what it should be updated with. You could run that 
at the startup of TextMate (or as a post-install script if you start 
using an installer).

Best, Eric




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