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Title: problem installing xACT
Post by: Nicaragua on January 20, 2004, 01:57:54 PM

hey, I'm very new to the mac(as in my new Ibook G4 came in the mail yesterday) and I'm having some trouble with this.  I couldn't find the answers to my questions in any of the forums so.....

anyway I download the .dmg, which then apparantly self-extracts itself(?), which I then copy to the HD like the ReadMe says. I open it then click on the xACT icon it asks if I need shntool, flac, etc installed.  Since I don't have these I click 'Yes'.   It then prompts me for a password which I enter.  It tells me that my password is incorrect.  I've was asked for this password when installing other software and did not have a problem.   I am able to log in and log out of the system without issues.  I am the only user.

so I'm guessing this is something to do with my lack of knowledge of OSX.  not configured correctly??

hope this is something easily remedied

Title: Re:problem installing xACT
Post by: nic on January 20, 2004, 02:11:47 PM

you should have 2 different passwords:
root/admin and normal user

Title: Re:problem installing xACT
Post by: Nicaragua on January 20, 2004, 02:35:24 PM

hmmmm

did I set up both of these passwords when I first turned on the computer?   I probably would have made them the same.  

so it'll ask for one password or the other depending on what is to be installed?

Title: Re:problem installing xACT
Post by: nic on January 20, 2004, 02:40:07 PM

hmmm, I'm assuming you are using Panther(10.3).
I'm only up to 10.2.7 so I dont know if they changed anything...

certain programs require more "rights/privledges" than others and require the root/admin password

Title: Re:problem installing xACT
Post by: Nicaragua on January 20, 2004, 06:19:10 PM

well somehow I managed to figure it out....apparently it makes a difference if you drag the icon or copy & paste it into applications folder

thanks for the response though luvean, I appreciate it

Title: Re:problem installing xACT
Post by: greenone on January 20, 2004, 06:32:05 PM

Cool, glad you got it figured out! There's an xACT users group over at groups.yahoo.com - Scott hangs out both there and here and generally responds pretty quickly. I'm surprised he didn't jump on this...must be catatonic somewhere. ;)

Title: Re:problem installing xACT
Post by: scb on January 20, 2004, 08:05:38 PM

hmm...it's never been in my applications folder (always in a project folder on my desktop) and the password has always worked.  i'll have to look into this...