aMule Forum
English => Multiplatform => Mac OSX => Topic started by: sick boy on October 27, 2005, 10:52:30 PM
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Hi all,
I was about to launch aMule and notested that it was taking ages to do it! I forced quit and tried to relaunch again and same prob!
So I went to look if there was any strange file on the .aMule folder, but it was gone!!! I did a search and it seems that it really disapered from my computer!!!
Anyone have any idea what's going on here?? this happened after i joined a huge folder to share on the directories, it froze the aMule and since then it never worked again! I tried to install the new mac binary and the same thing going on ?(
Thanx in advance for any help from you guys...
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*shameless copy'n'pasting from this thread (http://forum.amule.org/thread.php?threadid=5051)*
Note: When you start any of the above two versions for the first time, the invisible ".aMule" settings folder in your home folder will be moved to "Library/Application Support/aMule" in your home folder. If you want to go back to an older version of aMule (e.g. 2.0.3) then you need to move the folder back if you want to keep your settings and partial downloads. To do this, quit aMule and do "mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/aMule ~/.aMule" in the Terminal before you start the older aMule version.
Also, if your Incoming or Temp directories refer to folders within the configuration directory (which they do, by default), then they will have been changed by the relocation. In other words, if your Incoming used to be "/Users/[yourusername]/.aMule/Incoming", the relocation changes it to "/Users/[yourusername]/Library/Application Support/aMule/Incoming". So if you decide to switch back, you need to also change those directory settings to refer back to their old locations (you can do this in "aMule Preferences -> Directories").
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tsc, tsc, tsc, MAC's... :P
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Hi lionel,
Maybe I didn't explain myself very well!
That folder completely disapered from my system!! And I know that the folder is invisible, but i used onyx to show all hidden folders in the system, and belive me, the .aMule folder is just gone!!!! ;(
I read that thread before, but my problem is that aMule doesn't even start so i can access the diretories! It hangs like it wants to start but it stays there forever! X(
tsc, tsc, tsc, MAC's...
phoenix! maybe not for the aMule, but MACs are the best! :P ;)
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What I was trying to say is that in recent amule CVS, the .aMule folder has been moved to "Library/Application Support/aMule" inside your home folder. Once you start one of the newer builds the folder will be moved and you have to move it back manually (using the above instructions) if you want to switch back to an older version of amule (including 2.0.3 for example).
So it's very possible that you are just looking at the wrong place.
Concerning amule's startup problems, to get a better idea what is going on, let's run aMule through the command line, so we get more feedback:
- First, we need a Terminal window, so open Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.
- Now, drag the aMule application icon and drop it onto the terminal window. Terminal will paste the path to the application onto the command line for you. It will also add a space after the path.
- Delete the space at the end of the path.
- Add "/Contents/MacOS/amule" to the end of the path and press return.
- aMule should now start and generate some output in the Terminal window.
- Once there is no more new output and aMule just hangs in the startup process, copy the last 4 or 5 lines of this output and post it here on the forum. This will gives us a much clearer idea at which point aMule fails on your machine.
Originally posted by phoenix
tsc, tsc, tsc, MAC's... :P
I don't see how a folder vanishing/moving would be related to his MAC address -- maybe such weird things happen on PCs but not on a Mac... :P
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Originally posted by lionel77
Originally posted by phoenix
tsc, tsc, tsc, MAC's... :P
I don't see how a folder vanishing/moving would be related to his MAC address -- maybe such weird things happen on PCs but not on a Mac... :P
Hey, never mind about what I say, I am just jealous I don't have one :D
Cheers!
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I was wearing the smarty-pants myself -- whenever people write MAC instead of Mac or I-pod instead of iPod I just can't keep my fingers still... ;)
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sorry with my delay to post again but was busy as hell this last week!
lionel, beleave me! the folder vanished from here! i assure you! and besides everything started to happened before upgrading, while i was still using the older version! it was when i joined a folder with 60Gb to share that the crash happened
I still didn't catch aMule quite well ( lack of time to instigate!) but the problem was the base to upgrade to the new version. I'm wondering if it wasn't my assistant that screwed everything but never mind...
what makes me freack even more is that when i finally quited and uninstalled aMule to go back to the beginning, installed again, the Portuguese ipfilter that wardevil made (that seems to work to everyone) is not working with me and that message" cannot set language to locale..." is still poping up!! very, very weard...
I'm wondering if when i uninstalled it, there is still a file or something hidden that is blocking aMule to run well on my machine ?(
Originally posted by phoenix
Hey, never mind about what I say, I am just jealous I don't have one :D
We knew that phoenix! :P ;)
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I'm not sure I understand completely what you are saying, but I don't see any way how amule could have deleted your .aMule (or Library/Application Support/aMule) folder. Plus, if it had actually deleted it, the folder would have been recreated the next time amule was started.
Try this, in the Finder do "Go->Go to Folder", into the dialog that pops up copy "~/Library/Application Support/aMule/" and hit return to see if that opens a folder. If that does not, do the same thing with "~/.aMule" and see if that opens a folder.