New Dropbox Cache Cleaner "Desktop" Widget for Tiger (OS X 10.4)
Python on the Mac is a mixed blessing. On one hand, it makes app development much easier. On the other hand, it limits the deployment to OX X 10.5 (Leopard) unless you do some wrangling.
I made an Objective-C version of the "desktop widget" which is available for download now. Most likely, I will not update this version and I have not tested on Tiger yet. If you do test it and it does work (or fails miserably), please drop a note in the comments.
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I just noticed that my cache
I just noticed that my cache dropped from several hundred KB down to 80 KB when I quit my Dropbox app. When I relaunched it (without doing any file activity), the cache didn't immediately jump back up to the prior size. So maybe Dropbox does flush the cache when the app is quit. (I've only done this once.) Try it yourself and see if your experience is the same.
When I saw the Link (dyld)
When I saw the Link (dyld) error in my crash report, it reminded me of an old problem that 10.4 programmers used to have with their apps when run under 10.2, so I found my notes and quote them below; maybe it's a similar problem or otherwise may provoke a idea for you.
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"Why Tiger apps crash on launch in Jaguar
"There is a bug in Xcode 2.0 which causes all compiled applications to be unnecessarily linked against the /usr/lib/libmx.A.dylib library, a library which exists in Panther and Tiger, but which does not exist in Jaguar; the result in Jaguar is an immediate crash when the library cannot be found."
Let's hope this solves the
Let's hope this solves the problem :-)
Host Name:
Host Name: Schmye-Bubbulas-Computer
Date/Time: 2009-01-09 22:23:29.278 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.9 (Build 8P135)
Report Version: 4
Command: DBCCDesktop
Path: /Users/schmye/Desktop/DBCCDesktop-10.4.app/Contents/MacOS/DBCCDesktop
Parent: WindowServer [65]
Version: 1.1 (1.1)
PID: 16841
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Symbol not found: _NSDrawThreePartImage
Referenced from: /Users/schmye/Desktop/DBCCDesktop-10.4.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/BWToolkitFramework.framework/Versions/A/BWToolkitFramework
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit